SCHEDULE 2Private rented housing committees: procedure etc.

Expenses

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1

The Scottish Ministers may pay to any person such allowances and expenses as they may determine in respect of—

a

the person's attendance at a hearing of any private rented housing committee,

b

the disclosure of anything required or requested by a committee (including any report about the state of repair of a house which the committee requests the person to prepare),

c

anything else which the person was required or requested to do for the purposes of or in connection with inquiries made by a committee.

2

No such payments may be made to—

a

the landlord,

b

the tenant, or

c

a representative of the landlord or tenant,

other than payments of reasonable travelling expenses in respect of attendance at a hearing of any private rented housing committee.