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The Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
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Appointment of chief inspector and other inspectorsN.I.
16.—(1) The Department may appoint as inspectors (under whatever title the Department may determine) such persons having suitable qualifications as the Department thinks necessary for carrying this Order into effect in relation to prescribed processes designated for integrated central control or restricted central control or for the time being transferred under Article 5(5) to restricted central control, and may terminate any appointment made under this paragraph.
(2) The Department may make to or in respect of any person so appointed such payments by way of remuneration, allowances or otherwise as the Department may determine.
(3) The Department shall constitute one of the inspectors appointed under paragraph (1) to be the chief inspector.
(4) The functions conferred or imposed by or under this Order on the chief inspector as the enforcing authority may, to any extent, be delegated by him to any other inspector appointed under paragraph (1).
(5) A district council may appoint as inspectors (under whatever title the council may determine) such persons having suitable qualifications as the council thinks necessary for carrying this Order into effect in the council's district in relation to prescribed processes designated for local control (and not so transferred), and may terminate any appointment made under this paragraph.
(6) An inspector shall not be liable in any civil or criminal proceedings for anything done in the purported performance of his functions under Article 17 or 18 if the court is satisfied that the act was done in good faith and that there were reasonable grounds for doing it.
(7) In paragraph (6) and the following provisions of this Order “inspector” means a person appointed as an inspector under paragraph (1) or (5).
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