Section 13

Indemnity

13.1 Each member of Council and each Fellow of the Society acting as a member of any Standing Committee, Scientific Committee, Temporary Committee or Working Group, Specialist or Regional Group Committee or other body appointed by Council pursuant to these Bye-laws or otherwise or with the approval of Council for the purposes of the Society shall be accountable in respect of the acts of such Fellow or member only, and shall not be accountable for any acts done or authorised to which assent has not expressly been given. No member of any such body shall incur any personal liability in respect of any loss or damage incurred through any act, matters, or thing done, authorised or suffered by such member, being done in good faith for the benefit of the Society, although in excess of the member's legal power.

13.2 Each Fellow of the Society referred to in Bye-law 13.1 and the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries and the Treasurer/s, if appointed, shall be indemnified out of the funds and property of the Society from and against all costs, charges, damages and expenses whatsoever which they or any of them shall sustain by reason of their respectively accepting office or acting in the execution of the duties or powers imposed upon or given to them by the Charter or the Bye-laws of the Society, and Council shall have power for the purposes of this Bye-law to effect such policy or policies of insurance as Council shall from time to time think fit.