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52Indemnity provision for Chief Executive Officer and members of Council staff
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52 Indemnity provision for Chief Executive Officer and members of Council staff
A Council must indemnify and keep indemnified the Chief Executive Officer and each member of Council staff against all actions or claims whether arising during or after their term of office in respect of anything necessarily done or reasonably done or omitted to be done in good faith—
(a) in the performance of a duty or a function or the exercise of a power under this Act, the regulations or a local law or any other Act; or
(b) in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the performance of a duty or a function or the exercise of a power under this Act, the regulations or a local law or any other Act.