YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 182
YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 182
182 . Protection from legal 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 performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.
(3) The protection
given by this section applies even though the thing done in the performance or
purported 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.
(5) For the purposes
of this section, anything that a person who has any function under this Act
does in good faith and for reasonable or probable cause in promoting the
effective rehabilitation of a young person is to be regarded as having been
done in the performance of a function under this Act.
(6) A person who on
reasonable grounds and in good faith for the purposes of facilitating the
enforcement of the provisions of this Act makes a report with respect to the
circumstances of a person is not liable to any action for damage or any other
legal proceeding in respect of that report.