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WATER SERVICES LICENSING ACT 1995 - SECT 60A

60A .         Protection from liability

        (1)         An action in tort does not lie against a person for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.

        (1a)         Subsection (1) does not apply to a person referred to in section 56(1) of the Economic Regulation Authority Act 2003 .

        (2)         The Board and the Crown are also relieved of any liability that either of them might otherwise have had for another person having done anything as described in subsection (1).

        (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.

        [Section 60A inserted by No. 39 of 1999 s. 8; amended by No. 67 of 2003 s. 62.]



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