116GProtection from liability for use of police dog or police horse

116G Protection from liability for use of police dog or police horse (1) A member of the Police Force is not civilly or criminally liable if a police dog or police horse, while being used by the member in good faith in the exercise of a power or performance of a function as a (a) comes into physical contact with a person or a person's clothing; or (b) causes damage to a thing. Example of physical contact for subsection (1)(a) Restraining, pushing, biting or kicking a person. (2) Subsection (1) does not affect any liability the Territory would, apart from that subsection, have for the act of the dog or horse.

Police Administration Act 1978 73 (3) A member of the Police Force or the Territory is not civilly or criminally liable merely because a police dog or police horse entered or was at a place. (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.