S-2.4 - Act respecting civil protection to promote disaster resilience

Section 85 Disposition versions

2024-05-28

85. Any person referred to in section 84 who participates in the deployment of measures to respond to a disaster, to another event that compromises human safety or to the imminence of any of those events as well as any authority of which the person is a subordinate or that deployed or requested the deployment of those measures are relieved from liability for any damage resulting from an act performed or omitted by the person, unless the damage is caused by the person’s gross or intentional fault.

An authority is not entitled to the exemption provided for in the first paragraph if, in the case of a disaster, the authority did not, in accordance with this Act,

(1)  carry out or collaborate in the disaster risk management process;

(2)  carry out a plan prescribed by this Act or put in place the measures of such a plan that are under its responsibility; or

(3)  deploy the measures under its responsibility to respond to the disaster and that are related to the alleged acts.

2024, c. 18, s. 1.