ELECTRICITY (LICENSING) REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 15

ELECTRICITY (LICENSING) REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 15

15 .         Protection from liability

        (1)         An action in tort does not lie against —

            (a)         the Board; or

            (b)         a member of the Board; or

            (c)         a person designated or appointed by the Director under regulation 14,

                for anything that the Board or person has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under these regulations.

        (2)         The protection given by subregulation (1) applies even though the thing done as described in that subregulation may have been capable of being done whether or not these regulations had been made.

        (3)         The State is also relieved of any liability it might otherwise have for another person having done anything as described in that subregulation.

        (4)         In this regulation a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do anything.

        [Regulation 15 inserted: Gazette 31 Dec 2007 p. 6496‑7.]

[Divisions 2 and 3 (r. 16‑18) deleted: Gazette 30 Dec 2004 p. 6990.]