Legislation – Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
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PART 4Community protection
CHAPTER 1Community protection notices
Supplemental
54Exemption from liability
(1)
A local authority exercising or purporting to exercise a power under section 47(2) is not liable to an occupier or owner of land for damages or otherwise (whether at common law or otherwise) arising out of anything done or omitted to be done in the exercise or purported exercise of that power.
(2)
A person carrying out work under section 47(2), or a person by or on whose behalf work is carried out under section 49(2)(b), is not liable to an occupier or owner of land for damages or otherwise (whether at common law or otherwise) arising out of anything done or omitted to be done in carrying out that work.
(3)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply—
(a)
to an act or omission shown to have been in bad faith, or
(b)
to liability arising out of a failure to exercise due care and attention.
(4)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply so as to prevent an award of damages made in respect of an act or omission on the ground that the act or omission was unlawful by virtue of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.
(5)
This section does not affect any other exemption from liability (whether at common law or otherwise).