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5(1)The Scottish Ministers may pay to any person such allowances and expenses as they may determine in respect of—S
(a)the person's attendance at a hearing of [the First-tier Tribunal] ,
(b)the disclosure of anything required or requested by [the First-tier Tribunal] (including any report about the state of repair of a house which the [First-tier Tribunal] 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 [the First-tier Tribunal] .
(2)No such payments may be made to—
(a)the landlord,
(b)the tenant, or
[(ba)the third party applicant,]
(c)a representative of the landlord [, tenant or third party applicant] ,
other than payments of reasonable travelling expenses in respect of attendance at a hearing of [the First-tier Tribunal] .