50NLiability relating to designated neighbourhood safer places

50N Liability relating to designated neighbourhood safer places (1) This section applies in respect of a designated neighbourhood safer place. (2) Subject to this section, any liability for the death of or injury to a person arising from the use of the designated neighbourhood safer place that would attach to the owner or occupier of the land or a person with control of the land attaches instead to the municipal council in the municipal district of which the land is situated. (3) This section only applies in respect of a death or injury arising from the use of the designated neighbourhood safer place as a shelter from bushfire on a day (or during part of a day) when the area in which the place was located was beset, or threatened, by bushfire. (4) This section does not apply to a death or injury that was caused in the course of travelling to or from the designated neighbourhood safer place. (5) A reference to a liability in subsection (2), is a reference to a liability— (a) that arises in tort, contract, under statute or otherwise; and (b) that does not arise from an intentional act of a person at the designated neighbourhood safer place. S. 50O inserted by No. 73/2009 s. 3.