Section 5

No action, prosecution or other legal proceeding whatsoever shall be brought, instituted or maintained in any court against any public officer either personally or in his official capacity for or on

Emergency (Essential Powers)

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account of or in respect of any act ordered or done by him or purporting to have been ordered or done by him during the emergency period for the purpose of maintaining order or public security or of carrying into effect any regulation, order, rule, by-law, direction or notice made or issued under this Act, and no suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie in any court against any other person for or on account of or in respect of any act done or purporting to have been done by him under any regulation, order, rule, by-law, direction, notice or instruction of any public officer given for any such purpose as aforesaid:

Provided that the act of such officer or person was done in good faith and in a reasonable belief that it was necessary for the purpose intended to be served thereby.