8.—(1) The appropriate authority must indemnify the members of any appeal panel constituted for the purposes of the arrangements which it has made, as specified in regulation 3, 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) is to 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.