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NATIONAL ELECTRICITY (NORTHERN TERRITORY) (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) ACT 2015 (NO 16 OF 2015) - SECT 50

Protection from liability

    (1)     A person is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done or omitted to be done by the person in good faith in the exercise of a power under this Act as any of the following:

    (a)     an AER member (as defined in section 4(1) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth));

    (b)     a person assisting the regulator under section 44AAC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth);

    (c)     an authorised person;

    (d)     an arbitrator appointed under the Network Access Code.

    (2)     In addition, a person mentioned in subsection (1) is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done or omitted to be done by the regulator in the exercise of a power under this Act.

    (3)     Subsections (1) and (2) do not affect any liability the Territory or the regulator would, apart from those subsections, have for the act or omission.

    (4)     A person is not civilly or criminally liable for anything done by the person in good faith as any of the following:

    (a)     a system controller;

    (b)     a network provider;

    (c)     an officer or employee of a system controller or network provider.

    (5)     In this section:

"exercise of a power" means the exercise, or purported exercise of a power or the performance or purported performance of a function.

"Network Access Code action "means an act done or omitted to be done:

    (a)     in the exercise of a power under the Network Access Code; or

    (b)     in connection with a network provider providing, or not providing, network services under an access agreement or award.



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