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WAR SERVICE LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEME ACT 1954 - SECT 12

12 .         Protection from liability for wrongdoing

        (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.

        (2)         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.

        (3)         Despite subsection (1), neither the Minister nor the State is relieved of any liability that it might have for another person having done anything as described in that subsection.

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

        [Section 12 inserted by No. 8 of 2010 s. 35.]



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