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Public Service Act 1922
89AProtection of persons in respect of work reports on officers or employees
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##### 89A Protection of persons in respect of work reports on officers or employees
(1) An action or proceeding does not lie against a person for or in respect of any oral or written report made in good faith by the person on or in connection with:
(a) work performed, or proposed to be performed, by an officer or employee; or
(b) conduct of an officer or employee.
(2) A report shall be deemed to have been made in good faith if the person by whom the report was made was not actuated by ill will to the officer or employee affected or by any other improper motive.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a report unless:
(a) the person who made the report believed on reasonable grounds that it was the function or duty of the person to whom the report was made to receive the report; and
(b) in the case of a report containing matter that was false or misleading in a material respect, the person who made the report did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the report contained matter that was so false or misleading.