Persons conducting, participating in or assisting with an investigation by the Rail Accident Investigation BranchU.K.
6.—(1) The Chief Inspector may appoint a person who is not an inspector to conduct or participate in an investigation by the Branch.
(2) A person appointed under paragraph (1) may exercise such powers of an inspector as are necessary to enable him to perform his functions under the terms of his appointment.
(3) In relation to an investigation of an accident or incident that the Branch is conducting, the Chief Inspector may—
(a)request assistance from a constable, the safety authority, any public body or any other person acting under a power conferred on him by an enactment, or a constable, a procurator fiscal or the Lord Advocate acting under a power conferred on him at common law in Scotland, or from an accident investigating body of another F1... State F2...; or
(b)request assistance (including assistance with the retrieval, delivery, storage, disposal or destruction of evidence) from a person other than a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a),
at such times and in such manner as the Chief Inspector may reasonably determine.
(4) Where the Chief Inspector reasonably requests assistance from a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(b), that person shall assist him.
(5) Subject to paragraph (6) the Secretary of State may pay reasonable compensation to a person who assists the Chief Inspector pursuant to paragraph (3).
(6) Where a person who assists the Chief Inspector pursuant to paragraph (3) is—
(a)an owner of railway property, a railway industry body, or a manufacturer or supplier of equipment, components or services to an owner of railway property or to a railway industry body, whose property or staff have been involved in the accident or incident being investigated; and
(b)under a statutory duty or other legally enforceable requirement to investigate the causes of the accident or incident, including any duty or other legally enforceable requirement arising by virtue of his being authorised to control infrastructure or operate trains or stations,
in determining whether or not to pay compensation, the Secretary of State shall take account of whether the assistance concerned any matter to which the duty or other legally enforceable requirement to investigate referred to in sub-paragraph (b) relates.
(7) A person who fails to assist an inspector when required to do so in accordance with paragraph (4) shall be guilty of an offence.
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