Schedule 2Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator

Part 1Status and liability

Exemption from liability for damages

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(1)

The following are exempt from liability in damages for any act or omission in the exercise (or purported exercise) of their functions—

(a)

the adjudicator,

(b)

persons working as the adjudicator's staff.

(2)

Sub-paragraph (1) does not exempt a person from liability for doing, or not doing, something that is shown to have been done, or as the case may be not done, in bad faith.

(3)

Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent an award of damages being made in respect of an act or omission on the ground that it was unlawful as a result of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.