LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 259
LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 259
259 . Protection from personal liability
(1) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do
anything.
(2) An action in tort
does not lie against a person for anything that the person has, in good faith,
done in the exercise or performance or purported exercise or performance of a
function under this Act.
(3) The protection
given by this section applies even though the thing done in the exercise or
performance or purported exercise or performance of a function under this Act
may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.
(4) This section does
not relieve the Crown of any liability that it might have for the doing of
anything by a person against whom this section provides that an action does
not lie.
[Section 259 amended: No. 28 of 2006 s. 379; No. 8
of 2010 s. 14.]