Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT 1994 - SECT 28

    (1)     An official is not civilly liable for conduct engaged in honestly and without recklessness—

        (a)     in the exercise of a function under this Act; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the conduct was in the exercise of a function under this Act.

    (2)     Any civil liability that would, apart from this section, attach to the official attaches instead to the Territory.

    (3)     In this section:

"conduct" means an act or omission to do an act.

"official" means—

        (a)     the commissioner; or

        (b)     a member of the staff of the commissioner; or

        (c)     a person authorised under this Act to do or not to do a thing.