Energy Act 2013

Indemnities U.K.

20 (1) The ONR may, in the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (2), indemnify persons who are ONR officers against all or any part of any liability which they incur in the execution, or purported execution, of their functions as such ONR officers. U.K.

(2) Those circumstances are that the ONR is satisfied that the person in question honestly believed that the act giving rise to the liability—

(a) was within the person's relevant powers, and

(b) was one that the person was required or entitled to do by virtue of the person's position as an ONR officer.

(3) Sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) applies only so far as the ONR is not otherwise required to indemnify ONR officers, and

(b) is not to be taken to affect any other powers that the ONR has to indemnify its members or members of staff or persons appointed by it.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “liability” includes damages, costs and expenses (and a reference to liability incurred by a person includes a reference to any such sums which the person is ordered to pay);

• “ONR officer” means—

  (a)

  an inspector appointed under Schedule 8;

  (b)

  an enforcing officer appointed by the ONR under section 61(3) of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp. 5) (enforcing authorities);

  (c)

  an inspector appointed by the ONR under Article 26(1) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1541) (enforcement of Order);

  (d)

  a member of staff of the ONR who is authorised by the Secretary of State under section 4(2)(b) of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (certificates of insurance);

• “relevant powers”—

  (a)

  in relation to a person within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “ONR officer”, means the powers which the person has in the capacity of an inspector or enforcing officer of the kind in question;

  (b)

  in relation to a person within paragraph (d) of that definition, means the person's powers under the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 7 para. 20 in force at 10.3.2014 by S.I. 2014/251, art. 3(b)