{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-consumer-council-northern-ireland-order-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-consumer-council-northern-ireland-order-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1984/1822",
  "legislation_title": "The General Consumer Council (Northern Ireland) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-consumer-council-northern-ireland-order-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Council and the persons listed in paragraph (2) are not liable in damages for anything done or omitted to be done in exercise or purported exercise of any of the functions transferred to it under the following enactments—\n(a) the Postal Services Act 2000;\n(b) the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007;\n(c) the Postal Services Act 2011.\n(2) The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—\n(a) an employee of the Council;\n(b) a person contracted to work for the Council.\n(3) Sub-paragraph 1 does not apply—\n(a) if it is shown that the act or omission was in bad faith, or\n(b) 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 as a result of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 21(3) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1984/1822/schedule/1/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:01.158614+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}