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Crown Entities Act 2004

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional and savings provisions

189: Existing protection from liability provisions

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"Protection from paying for mistakes made while working for the government"

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If you are a member, office holder, or employee of a Crown entity, you might be protected from liability. This means you might not have to pay for something you did or did not do while working for the Crown entity. You are protected if something happened before this law started and you were already allowed to be indemnified by the Crown entity. You will still get this protection if it is as good as, or better than, what this law says. This law does not change your entitlement to an indemnity if you already had one that is as favourable as, or more favourable than, what is in this law.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional and savings provisions

189Existing protection from liability provisions

  1. This section applies to a member, an office holder, or an employee of a Crown entity who is entitled, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, to be indemnified by a Crown entity in respect of any proceedings for any liability or costs arising from any act or omission as a member, office holder, or employee that occurred before that date.

  2. This Act does not affect the member, office holder, or employee's entitlement to an indemnity if that entitlement is, in its overall effect, as favourable to that person as, or more favourable to that person than, the entitlement provided for in this Act.