Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies to a person who is or at the relevant time was the Minister, the
relevant local government, any holder of an interest in the subject Crown land
or any other person acting under the authority or direction of the Minister,
the relevant local government or that holder.
(2) Subject to this
Division, a person to whom this section applies is neither —
(a)
obliged to perform any construction or maintenance in respect of a public
access route; nor
(b) an
occupier of premises in respect of a public access route for the purposes of
the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1985 .
(3) An action in tort
does not lie against a person to whom this section applies for anything that
that person has in good faith done in the performance or purported performance
of a function under this Division.
(4) The protection
given by subsection (3) applies even though the thing done in the performance
or purported performance of a function under this Division may have been
capable of being done whether or not this Division had been enacted.
(5) In subsections (3)
and (4), a reference to the doing of any thing includes a reference to the
omission to do any thing.
(6) Members of the
public use a public access route entirely at their own risk.