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YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 2024 - SECT 527

Exemption from liability

    (1)     A youth justice custodial officer is not personally liable for injury or damage caused by anything reasonably done or omitted to be done in good faith in the exercise of a power under a provision specified in subsection (2).

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), the following provisions are specified—

        (a)     section 475 (use of force);

        (b)     section 477 (use of instruments of restraint);

        (c)     section 485 (use of force to place in isolation);

        (d)     section 498 (use of force to conduct unclothed search).

    (3)     Any liability for injury or damage resulting from an act or omission that, but for subsection (1), would attach to the youth justice custodial officer attaches instead to the State.

Part 10.5—Offences relating to youth justice custodial centres and youth justice community service centres

Division 1—Offences relating to operation or possession of remotely piloted aircraft or helicopter



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