Part VIOfficial Listing

Miscellaneous

102Exemption from liability in damages

1

Neither the competent authority nor any person who is, or is acting as, a member, officer or member of staff of the competent authority is to be liable in damages for anything done or omitted in the discharge, or purported discharge, of the authority’s functions.

2

Subsection (1) does not apply—

a

if the act or omission is shown to have been in bad faith; or

b

so as to prevent an award of damages made in respect of an act or omission on the ground that the act or omission was unlawful as a result of section 6(1) of the [1998 c. 42.] Human Rights Act 1998.