LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 9.57
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 9.57
9.57 . Local government protected from certain liability
(1) A person cannot
recover damages against a local government in respect of loss or injury
sustained either to that person or to another person or to property by reason
of a mishap upon or while using a portion of a thoroughfare, which portion has
not been interfered with by the local government, merely because some other
portion of that thoroughfare, whether distant laterally or longitudinally, has
been taken over or improved by the local government.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not relieve a local government from liability where the mishap is caused
by the negligence of the local government in the execution of works then in
progress, or which have been completed by the local government in a
thoroughfare.