SCHEDULE 1Incorporation of Wales Audit Office
PART 2NON-EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
Remuneration arrangements
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(1)
The National Assembly may make remuneration arrangements in relation to the person who chairs the WAO (subject to sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph 9).
(2)
But no arrangements can be made until the First Minister has been consulted.
(3)
Amounts payable by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) are to be charged on, and paid out of, the Welsh Consolidated Fund.
(4)
The National Assembly may make remuneration arrangements in relation to any other non-executive member.
(5)
Amounts payable under sub-paragraph (4) are to be paid by the WAO.
(6)
Remuneration arrangements under this paragraph—
(a)
may provide for a salary, allowances, gratuities, and other benefits to cover expenses properly and necessarily incurred, but not for a pension, and
(b)
may include a formula or other mechanism for adjusting one or more of those elements from time to time.
(7)
But no element is to be performance-based.