7Commonwealth or Commonwealth authority to incur liability

7 Commonwealth or Commonwealth authority to incur liability

(1) The Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority incurs any civil liability that an individual would, except for section 6, incur in respect of a thing done by the individual while doing work for the Commonwealth or the Commonwealth authority. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a Commonwealth authority if: (a) a provision in an Act gives protection to the Commonwealth authority from civil liability; and (b) under the provision, the Commonwealth authority would be protected from civil liability in relation to the thing done by the individual.