10.—(1) Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) may, with the approval of the Scottish Ministers, pay or make arrangements for the payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities to, or in respect of, any person who is or has been a member of its staff.
(2) Those arrangements may include—
(a)making payments towards the provision of those pensions, allowances and gratuities;
(b)providing and maintaining schemes for the payment of those pensions, allowances and gratuities.
(3) The references in this article to pensions, allowances and gratuities include pensions, allowances and gratuities by way of compensation for loss of office.
(4) This article is subject to any provision in a transfer scheme about the payment of pensions, allowances or gratuities to, or in respect of, a person whose contract of employment is transferred to Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) under the scheme.