Regulation 19 Persons Owing a Duty

Any duty imposed by these Regulations on the employer of a protected person shall also be a duty owed by–

(a)

the parent company (if any) of the employer of the protected person;

(b)

if neither the employer nor the parent company is a successor company, the last successor company before that duty arose to have been the employer (or the parent company of the employer) of that person;

(c)

any parent company of a successor company within sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph in respect only of the liability of that successor company under that sub-paragraph; and

(d)

any two or more successor companies which together own the whole of the ordinary issued share capital of a successor company within sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph (“company A”), in respect only of the liability of company A under that sub-paragraph jointly but, in respect of any monetary obligation of the employer, severally divided in the proportions which the ordinary issued share capital in company A of each such successor company bears to the aggregate ordinary issued share capital of company A upon the date on which those companies become the owners of the whole of the ordinary issued share capital of company A.