Personal Data Protection Act 2012 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 10 · General
60. Protection from personal liability
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any member or officer of a relevant body;
relevant body
“relevant body” means the Commission, the Appeal Panel or any Appeal Committee;
any person authorised, appointed or employed to assist a relevant body;
any person who is on secondment or attachment to a relevant body;
any person authorised or appointed by a relevant body to exercise the relevant body’s powers, perform the relevant body’s functions or discharge the relevant body’s duties or to assist the relevant body in the exercise of its powers, the performance of its functions or the discharge of its duties under this Act or any other written law; or
any inspector or any person authorised, appointed or employed to assist an inspector in connection with any function or duty of the inspector under this Act,as a result of anything done (including any statement made) or omitted to be done with reasonable care and in good faith in the course of or in connection with —
inspector
“inspector” means an individual appointed as an inspector under section 8(1)(b);
the exercise or purported exercise of any power under this Act or any other written law;
the performance or purported performance of any function or the discharge or purported discharge of any duty under this Act or any other written law; or
the compliance or purported compliance with this Act or any other written law.