Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010

Members of the Commission: period of office, removal, and other and subsequent appointments

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6After paragraph 6 there is inserted—

Subsequent appointments etc.

6A(1)A person who has ceased to be a member of the Commission may not, without the approval of the Parliamentary corporation—

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

(b)hold office in or be an employee or appointee of any Scottish public authority in relation to which the Commission conducted an inquiry under section 8(1)(a) while that person was a member of the Commission, 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 5(9)(a), that person could not have held or, as the case may be, engaged in when a member of the Commission.

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

(a)starts when the person ceases to be a member of the Commission, and

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