EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 100
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 100
100 . Protection from liability
(1) An action in tort
does not lie against the State, a Minister, the State Emergency Coordinator, a
local government or an official for anything done, in good faith, under this
Act.
(2) This section does
not stop a person further limiting the person’s liability for an act or
omission by relying on a provision of the Civil Liability Act 2002 .
(3) Subsection (1)
does not affect any right to recover damages in respect of the death of or
bodily injury to any person directly caused by, or by the driving of, a motor
vehicle if, at the time of the death or bodily injury —
(a) the
vehicle was owned or was being driven by a person who, but for subsection (1),
would incur liability in respect of the death or injury; and
(b)
there was in force in respect of the vehicle a contract of insurance in
accordance with the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 section 4
or the corresponding legislation of a State or Territory prescribed for the
purposes of section 3(4) of that Act.
(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 this Act had been enacted.
(5) In this section a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do
anything.
(6) In this section
—
motor vehicle has the meaning given to that term
in the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 section 3(1);
official means —
(a) a
member of the State Disaster Council, the State Emergency Management
Committee, the State Emergency Coordination Group, a district emergency
management committee or local emergency management committee;
(b) an
authorised officer;
(c) a
district emergency coordinator;
(d) a
local emergency coordinator;
(e) an
emergency management agency;
(f) a
hazard management officer;
(g) a
person acting under the direction or on the requirement of an authorised
officer, a hazard management officer, or a police officer, under this Act.
[Section 100: modified by section 77X(1).]