Western Australian Numbered Acts

DANGEROUS SEXUAL OFFENDERS AMENDMENT ACT 2011 (NO. 3 OF 2011) - SECT 14

14 .         Section 46A inserted

                After section 45 insert:

46A.         Protection from personal liability

        (1)         In this section —

        protected person means —

            (a)         a person employed in the department of the Public Service that principally assists the Minister administering the Prisons Act 1981 ; or

            (b)         a person appointed under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991 or a person on the staff referred to in section 30 of that Act; or

            (c)         a psychiatrist.

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

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

        (4)         The protection given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in subsection (3) may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.