PART 6

Investigation of complaints against regulators

Exemption from liability in damages
88
1
Neither the investigator appointed under section 84 nor a person appointed to conduct an investigation on the investigator's behalf under section 87(8) is to be liable in damages for anything done or omitted in the discharge, or purported discharge, of functions in relation to the investigation of a complaint.
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.
S. 88 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch.