Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
425Protection from liability
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425 Protection from liability
(1) A Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioner, including an acting Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioner, is not personally liable for any thing done or omitted to be done in good faith—
(a) in the exercise of a power or the performance of a function under this Act; or
(b) in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the performance of a function under this Act.
(2) Any liability resulting from an act or omission that, but for subsection (1), would attach to a Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioner, including an acting Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioner, attaches instead to the State.