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Crown Entities Act 2004

Operation of Crown entities - Statutory entities - Protections from liability of members, office holders, and employees

123: Insurance for liability of member, office holder, or employee

You could also call this:

"Protection for people in organisations if they make a mistake at work"

A statutory entity can get insurance to cover a member, office holder, or employee if they do something wrong or forget to do something. This insurance cover is for things they do or do not do as part of their job. You cannot get this insurance cover if someone does something on purpose to hurt others or if they do something that is not part of their job.

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Part 3Operation of Crown entities
Statutory entities: Protections from liability of members, office holders, and employees

123Insurance for liability of member, office holder, or employee

  1. A statutory entity may effect insurance cover for a member, office holder, or employee of the entity in relation to his or her acts or omissions, except an act or omission that is—

  2. in bad faith:
    1. not in the performance or intended performance of the entity's functions.