63 Secretary of State to indemnify [appropriate agency] in certain cases
Water Resources Act 1991 (1991 c 57) | Legislation

63  Secretary of State to indemnify [appropriate agency] in certain cases

(1)     Where—

(a)     the [appropriate agency] is liable under section 60 above to pay damages to any person in consequence of the grant or variation of a licence in compliance with a direction given by the Secretary of State; and

(b)     the [appropriate agency] pay to that person any sum in satisfaction of that liability,

then, whether an action for recovery of those damages has been brought or not, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, pay to the [appropriate agency] the whole or such part as

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