The Education (Admissions Appeals Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002

Indemnity

8.—(1) Any local education authority or governing body making arrangements such as are referred to in regulation 3 shall indemnify the members of any appeal panel constituted for the purposes of those arrangements against any reasonable legal costs and expenses reasonably incurred by those members in connection with any decision or action taken by them in good faith in pursuance of their functions as members of that panel.

(2) Where any such panel is constituted by—

(a) the governing bodies of two or more foundation or voluntary aided schools maintained by the same local education authority, or

(b) a local education authority and the governing body or bodies of one or more foundation or voluntary aided schools maintained by the authority,

any liability arising under paragraph (1) shall be a joint and several liability of the bodies by whom the joint arrangements are made unless otherwise previously agreed in writing between those bodies.