Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Act 2016

12 Other sanctions

After section 17 there is inserted—

“17A Other sanctions

(1) If a member fails to comply with, or contravenes, section 3, 5, 6, 8A(4) and (5), 13 or 14 or a measure taken by the Parliament under section 15 or 16, the Parliament may, by resolution, do one or more of the following—

(a) exclude the member, for such period as the Parliament determines, from the premises of the Parliament or such part of them as it determines;

(b) withdraw, for such period as the Parliament determines, the member’s right to use the facilities and services provided for members by the Parliamentary corporation or such of them as the Parliament determines;

(c) censure the member.

(2) Where a member is to be excluded from proceedings in the Parliament under section 16 or from the premises of the Parliament (or a part of them) under subsection (1)(a), the Parliament may also, by resolution, disallow payment of—

(a) the salary that would otherwise be payable to the member in respect of such period (not exceeding the duration of the exclusion) as it determines;

(b) the allowances that would otherwise be payable to the member in respect of such period (not exceeding the duration of the exclusion) as it determines; or

(c) both.

(3) In this section—

(a) “premises” includes places to which the public has access;

(b) “salary of the member” means the salary payable to the member by virtue of section 81(1) of the 1998 Act (including any salary payable because of section 83(4) of that Act (membership during dissolution));

(c) the references to a period not exceeding the duration of an exclusion are, where there are two exclusions of different lengths, references to the longer one.”.