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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.