Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11)

SCHEDULE 4 S Amendments of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 13)

Subsequent appointments S

14 S After paragraph 8 (as inserted by paragraph 13 above) there is inserted—

“Restrictions on subsequent appointments etc. S

9 (1) A person who has ceased being the Commissioner may not, without the approval of the Parliamentary corporation—

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

(b) be a Scottish public authority or hold office in, or be an employee or appointee of, a Scottish public authority, 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 section 42(3B)(a), that person could not have held or, as the case may be, engaged in when Commissioner.

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

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

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