5(1)South of Scotland Enterprise may, in accordance with a determination by the Scottish Ministers—
(a)pay each member remuneration and allowances (including expenses), and
(b)pay, or make arrangements for the payment of, allowances and gratuities to, or in respect of, any person who is or has been a member.
(2)The arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) may include—
(a)making payments towards the provision of those allowances and gratuities,
(b)providing and maintaining schemes for the payment of those allowances and gratuities to, or in respect of, any person who is or has been a member.
(3)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to allowances and gratuities include allowances and gratuities by way of compensation for loss of office as a member.
(4)South of Scotland Enterprise must, if directed to do so by the Scottish Ministers, pay a person who has ceased to be a member the amount specified by the Ministers in the direction.
(5)The Scottish Ministers—
(a)may make a direction under sub-paragraph (5) only in a case where it appears to them to be right that a person should be compensated for losing office as a member,
(b)may not make a direction under that sub-paragraph in a case where the loss of office is the result of a period of appointment ending (see paragraph 2).