Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010

11 Subsequent appointments etc. of former Commissioner

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

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

(b) be a member, employee or appointee of—

(i) the Standards Commission for Scotland,

(ii) a specified authority, or

(iii) a devolved public body,

(c) be a specified authority (where the authority is an individual),

(d) be, or be an employee or appointee of, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, or

(e) hold any other office, employment or appointment or engage in any other occupation, being an office, employment, appointment or occupation which, by virtue of section 9(7)(a), that person could not have held or, as the case may be, engaged in when a Commissioner.

(2) The restriction in subsection (1)—

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

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

(3) In this section—

(a) the following expressions have the following meanings—

• “specified authority” means any of the specified authorities referred to in section 2(1) of the Public Appointments Act,

• “devolved public body” has the meaning given by section 28(1) of the Ethical Standards Act,

(b) the reference to a member of a specified authority includes a reference to—

(i) a member, by co-option, of any committee of a specified authority,

(ii) a holder of a paid office appointed by a specified authority, and

(c) a paid office is one where the holder is entitled to remuneration, allowances or expenses or any combination of them.