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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 534

534 .         Protection from liability for performance of functions

        (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 Minister and the State are also relieved of any liability that either of them might otherwise have had for a person having done anything as described in subsection (1).

        (3)         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.

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



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