CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 132
CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 132
132 . Protection from personal liability
(1) A person does not
incur civil liability for anything done by the person in good faith in, or in
connection with, the performance or purported performance of functions under
this Act.
(2) The State is also
relieved of any civil liability for anything done or omitted to be done in
good faith in, or in connection with, the performance or purported performance
of a function under this Act in relation to preventing, managing or
controlling fire on land to which this Act applies, section 8A land or
section 8C land.
(3) Without limiting
subsection (1), a person who is —
(a) a
party to an agreement made under section 8A; or
(b) a
member of a joint management body established in accordance with section 8A;
or
(c) a
party to a section 56A agreement for land; or
(d) a
member of a joint management body for the land established in accordance with
section 56A,
has, in relation to
the management of the agreed area or other land for the purposes of this Act,
the same protection from liability under subsection (1) as if the management
were a function under this Act performed by that person.
(4) The protection
given by this section applies even though the thing done in the performance or
purported performance of a function under this Act may have been capable of
being done whether or not those Acts had been enacted.
(5) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do
anything.
[Section 132 inserted: No. 28 of 2015 s. 64;
amended: No. 24 of 2016 s. 308.]