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Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010

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9After paragraph 5 there is inserted—

Subsequent appointments etc.

5A(1)A person who has ceased being the Commissioner (“the former Commissioner”) may not, without the approval of the Parliamentary corporation—

(a)be employed or appointed in any other capacity by the Commissioner,

(b)be an employee or appointee of—

(i)any person in relation to whom, or

(ii)any body in relation to which,

an investigation under this Act has been carried out or continued by the former Commissioner when Commissioner, or hold office in any such body, or

(c)hold any other office, employment or appointment or engage in any other occupation, being an office, employment, appointment or occupation which, by virtue of paragraph 4(3)(a), that former Commissioner could not have held or, as the case may be, engaged in when Commissioner.

(2)The restriction in sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)starts when the person ceases to be the Commissioner, and

(b)ends on the expiry of the financial year next following the one in which it started.

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