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Electricity Reform Act 2000
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108 Protection from liability
(1) A person is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done or omitted
to be done by the person in good faith in the exercise of a power or
performance of a function in the administration or enforcement of
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any liability the Territory or the
Utilities Commission would, apart from that subsection, have for the
act or omission.
(3) A person referred to in subsection (1) includes the following:
(a) a system controller;
(b) a person referred to in section 38(4) when exercising a power
or performing a function under section 38;
(c) an employee or contractor of the retailer of last resort when
performing functions or exercising powers under Part 3,
Division 5.
(4) In this section:
exercise of a power includes the purported exercise of the power.
performance of a function includes the purported performance of
the function.