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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 97

97.(1) An officer of a Health and Social Services Board, the Agency or the
Staffs Council shall not be personally liable in respect of any act done by
him in the execution of any function of the Health and Social Services Board,
the Agency or the Staffs Council, as the case requires, and within the scope
of his employment if he acted reasonably and in the honest belief that his
duty required or empowered him to do it; but nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed as relieving such a body of any liability in respect of acts of
its officers.

(2) Where an action has been brought against an officer of a body such as is
mentioned in paragraph (1) in respect of an act done by him in the execution
or purported execution of any such function and the circumstances are such
that he is not legally entitled to require that body to indemnify him, that
body may nevertheless indemnify him against the whole or a part of any damages
or costs which he may have been ordered to pay or may have incurred, if that
body is satisfied that he honestly believed that the act complained of was
within the scope of his employment and that his duty required or empowered him
to do it.

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