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Information Privacy Act 2014
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52 Protection of officials from liability
(1) An official is not civilly liable for anything done or omitted to be done
honestly and without recklessness—
(a) in the exercise of a function under this Act; or
(b) in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the
exercise of a function under this Act.
(2) Any civil liability that would, apart from subsection (1), attach to an
official attaches instead to the Territory.
(3) In this section:
official means—
(a) the information privacy commissioner; or
(b) a person authorised under this Act to do or not to do a thing.
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