Part VI

Official Listing

Miscellaneous

Exemption from liability in damages
102
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 Human Rights Act 1998.
1998 c. 42.