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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Section 102: Exemption from liability in damages

193.This section gives the competent authority and its staff immunity against legal action for damages in respect of anything done or omitted in the discharge of its functions.  This immunity does not apply where the act or omission was in bad faith or where it was unlawful as a result of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.  Section 6(1) of that Act makes it unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a right conferred by the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which is included in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Act.

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