79SImmunities relating to functions of Commissioner and reviewers

1. The Commissioner is immune from civil liability for anything done or omitted to be done by the Commissioner in good faith in determining an application for a preservation direction under this subpart.

2. A reviewer is immune from civil liability for anything done or omitted to be done by the reviewer in good faith in conducting a review of the Commissioner’s decision to make a preservation direction.

3. If the Commissioner or a reviewer is immune from civil liability under this section in respect of anything done or omitted to be done, the Crown is also immune from civil liability in respect of the Commissioner’s or reviewer’s conduct.

4. If there is any inconsistency between any of subsections (1) to (3) and the provisions of any other enactment conferring, regulating, or limiting a privilege or immunity, those subsections prevail.

5. In this section, reviewer means a person who is responsible (under a delegation under section 17 of the Policing Act 2008) for conducting a review under this subpart of the Commissioner’s decision to make a preservation direction.