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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99G: Protection of persons acting under authority of this Act

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"People doing their job under this law are protected from getting in trouble"

Illustration for Crown Minerals Act 1991

If you are an enforcement officer or helping one, you are protected when doing your job under this Act. You will not get in trouble for what you do or do not do, unless you act in bad faith.

When you are inspecting or searching something under sections 99B and 99C, you must follow the rules in sections 166 and 167 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.

You can find more information about these rules by looking at the links to sections 99B and 99C, and also at the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, which includes sections 166 and 167.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99GProtection of persons acting under authority of this Act

  1. No enforcement officer or person called upon to assist an enforcement officer who does an act, or omits to do an act, when performing a function or exercising a power conferred on that person by or under this Act (other than when exercising powers of inspection or search under sections 99B and 99C) is under any civil or criminal liability in respect of the act or omission, unless the person has acted, or omitted to act, in bad faith.

  2. Sections 166 and 167 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 apply in relation to persons exercising powers of inspection or search under sections 99B and 99C.

Notes
  • Section 99G: inserted, on , by section 52 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).