Terms of appointment
17(1)The terms of the employee members’ appointment are to be determined by the non-executive members.
(2)The terms may include remuneration arrangements which—
(a)may provide for allowances, gratuities, and other benefits to cover expenses properly and necessarily incurred by the person in the capacity of member of the WAO, and
(b)may include a formula or other mechanism for adjusting one or more of those elements from time to time.
(3)The remuneration arrangements may not provide for payment of a salary or, subject to sub-paragraph (5), a pension.
(4)Amounts payable by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) are to be paid by the WAO.
(5)If an employee member (“E”) is a participant in a pension scheme under the terms of E’s employment with the WAO, the remuneration arrangements must (without affecting the continuity of that employment) provide for E’s service as an employee member to be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the WAO.