Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) An action in tort
does not lie against —
(a) a
person for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the
performance or purported performance of a function under this Act; or
(b) a
person acting under an authority mentioned in section 152(5)(c) or
267A(1) for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the
performance or purported performance of a function to which the authority
applies.
[(2) deleted]
(3) The protection
given by subsection (1) applies even though the thing done as described
in that subsection may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act
or any other written law had been enacted.
(4) Despite
subsection (1), neither the Commission, the State nor a local government
is relieved of any liability that it might have for another person having done
anything as described in that subsection.
(5) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do
anything.
[Section 267 amended by No. 8 of 2010
s. 26.]