Victorian Current Acts

FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 61C

S. 61C(1) amended by No. 70/2013 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 20.5).

    (1)     The Chief Fire Officer of the Department of Environment and Primary Industries is not personally liable for any thing done or omitted to be done in good faith—

        (a)     in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act or the regulations or any other Act or regulations made under that Act; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act or the regulations or any other Act or regulations made under that Act.

S. 61C(2) amended by No. 70/2013 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 20.5).

    (2)     Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would but for subsection (1) attach to the Chief Fire Officer of the Department of Environment and Primary Industries attaches to the Secretary.

S. 61D inserted by No. 73/2010 s. 50, substituted by No. 73/2013 s. 86 (as amended by No. 41/2014 s. 14).