SCHEDULE 2Private rented housing committees: procedure etc.
Expenses
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(1)
The Scottish Ministers may pay to any person such allowances and expenses as they may determine in respect of—
(a)
the person’s attendance at a hearing of any private rented housing committee,
(b)
the disclosure of anything required or requested by a committee (including any report about the state of repair of a house which the committee requests the person to prepare),
(c)
anything else which the person was required or requested to do for the purposes of or in connection with inquiries made by a committee.
(2)
No such payments may be made to—
(a)
the landlord,
(b)
the tenant, or
(c)
a representative of the landlord or tenant,
other than payments of reasonable travelling expenses in respect of attendance at a hearing of any private rented housing committee.