CommitteesS
8(1)Consumer Scotland may establish committees and sub-committees.S
(2)The membership of a committee or sub-committee may include or consist of persons who are not members of Consumer Scotland (but those persons are not entitled to vote at meetings).
(3)Consumer Scotland may—
(a)pay each member of a committee or sub-committee who is not a member of or a member of staff of Consumer Scotland 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 of a committee or sub-committee who is not a member of or a member of staff of Consumer Scotland.
(4)Those arrangements 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 of a committee or sub-committee.
(5)The reference in sub-paragraph (3) to allowances and gratuities include allowances and gratuities by way of compensation for loss of office as a member of a committee or sub-committee.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.S.I. 2021/464, reg. 2