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Police Administration Act 1978
116GProtection from liability for use of police dog or police horse
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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.
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(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.