CPA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 6 — General
82 Protection from liability
RSA 2000
ENGINEERING AND GEOSCIENCE
(a) any person conducting a preliminary investigation, a
member of the Discipline Committee, the Practice Review
Board, the Investigative Committee, the Appeal Board, the
Council or the Board of Examiners, the Registrar, the
Association or any person acting on the instructions of any
of them, or
(b) any member, officer or employee of the Association
for anything done by that person or body in good faith and in
purporting to act under this Act, the regulations or the bylaws.
(2) No action for defamation may be founded on a communication
that consists of or pertains to a complaint regarding the conduct of
a professional member, licensee, permit holder, certificate holder or
member-in-training, if the communication is published to or by
(a) the Association,
(b) a member of the Council, the Discipline Committee, the
Practice Review Board, the Investigative Committee, the
Appeal Board or the Board of Examiners,
(c) a person conducting a preliminary investigation,
(d) an officer or employee of the Association, or
(e) a person acting on the instructions of any of them
in good faith in the course of investigating the complaint or in the
course of any proceedings under Part 5 relating to the complaint.
1981 cE-11.1 s79;1995 c14 s39