Hong Kong Ordinances

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE - SECT 14A

Protection of public officers

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 54 of 2000 s. 3

(1) A public officer is not personally liable in respect of any act or
omission of his if it was done or made by him in the honest belief that it was
required or authorized in the exercise of any function, duty or power of his
under this Ordinance.

(2) The protection conferred on public officers by subsection (1) in respect
of any act or omission shall not in any way affect any liability of the
Government in tort for that act or omission. (Amended 54 of 2000 s. 3) (Added
71 of 1989 s. 11)