Part 1THE COMMISSIONER FOR ETHICAL STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE IN SCOTLAND

Finance

21Funding

(1)

The Parliamentary corporation is to—

(a)

pay the remuneration and allowances of F1the Commissioner,

(b)

pay any expenses properly incurred by the F2Commissioner in the performance of F3the Commissioner’s functions, so far as not met out of sums received and applied by F4the Commissioner under section 12(5),

(c)

indemnify the F5... Commissioner in respect of any liabilities incurred by F6the Commissioner in the performance of F7the Commissioner's functions.

(2)

Subsection (1)(b) does not require the Parliamentary corporation to pay any expenses incurred by the F8Commissioner which exceed or are otherwise not covered by a budget or, as the case may be, a revised budget approved under section 20.

(3)

However, the Parliamentary corporation may pay those expenses.