66Protection of persons in respect of work reports

66 Protection of persons in respect of work reports

(1) An action or proceeding, civil or criminal, does not lie against a person in respect of any oral or written report made in good faith by the person for the purposes of this Act or the regulations, being a report about work done, or proposed to be done, by the Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner, an AFP employee, a special member or a special protective service officer. (2) A report is to be taken to have been made in good faith if the person who made it was not actuated by ill will to the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, AFP employee, special member or special protective service officer, as the case may be, or by any other improper motive. (3) Subsection (1) does not apply unless: (a) the person who made the report believed on reasonable grounds that it was the function or duty of the person to whom the report was made to receive it; and (b) if the report contained matter that was false or misleading in a material respect—the person who made the report did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered, that the report contained such matter.