Part 10Miscellaneous provisions
Limit on proceedings and Crown liability
445FLimitation on liability
The Crown, the department, the chief executive, the chief executive’s delegate, any employee or contractor of the department, and any organisation or person with whom a child or young person is placed by the chief executive are not liable in respect of the matters set out in subsection (2).
The matters are anything suffered by a child or young person in the care or custody of the chief executive as a consequence of an act or omission that occurs on or after the commencement of this section by a person who is not—
- the Crown:
- the department:
- the chief executive:
- the chief executive’s delegate:
- an employee or a contractor of the department:
- an organisation or person in whose charge the child or young person has been placed by the chief executive.
An organisation or person specified in subsection (4)(a) to (d) (other than a person or organisation referred to in subsection (1)) is not liable in respect of the matters referred to in subsection (4).
The matters are anything suffered by a child or young person in the care or custody of a person or organisation referred to in subsection (3), as a consequence of an act or omission that occurs on or after the commencement of this section by an organisation or a person who is not—
- the organisation or person with care or custody of the child or young person:
- the organisation’s or person’s delegate:
- an employee or contractor of that organisation or person:
- another organisation or person in whose charge the child or young person has been placed by the organisation or person referred to in paragraph (a).
Notes
- Section 445F: inserted, on , by section 133 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 31).

