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WORKING WITH CHILDREN (CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKING) ACT 2004 (NO. 65 OF 2004) - SECT 40

40 .         Protection from liability for wrongdoing

        (1)         A person does not incur civil liability for anything that the person has done in good faith in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.

        (2)         The protection given by subsection (1) applies even though the thing done as described in that subsection may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.

        (3)         The State is also relieved of any liability that it might otherwise have had for another person having done anything as described in subsection (1).

        (4)         In this section, a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do anything.



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