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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS FREE AREAS ACT 2003 - SECT 17

17 .         Protection from liability for wrongdoing

        (1)         An authorised officer is not liable for anything that the officer has, in good faith, done in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1), the State is not relieved of any liability that it might have for an authorised officer having done anything as described in that subsection.

        (3)         The protection given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in subsection (1) may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.

        (4)         In this section, a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do anything.



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