(1)The Board must, on the first occasion on which it proposes to make a determination in relation to any matter, have regard to the recommendations of the National Assembly for Wales Independent Review Panel on arrangements for the financial support of Assembly members published on the 6th July 2009, so far as those recommendations are relevant to that matter.
(2)If, when it makes a determination to which subsection (1) applies, the Board includes in that determination provision which, in any respect, departs from those recommendations, the Board must state in writing its reasons for doing so and communicate that statement to the Assembly Commission at the same time as the determination to which it relates.
(3)The Assembly Commission must lay before the Assembly any statement communicated to it under subsection (2) at the same time as it lays before the Assembly the determination to which it relates.
(4)Subject to subsection (1) the Board may, when it proposes to make a determination in relation to any matter, have regard to those recommendations insofar as they appear to the Board to continue to be relevant to that matter.