SCHEDULE 5Amendments of the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 17)

Finance and budget

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Paragraph 9 (payment of Commissioner's salary, expenses etc.) is renumbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and—

a

at the end of that sub-paragraph (as so renumbered) there is inserted “ so far as not met out of sums received and applied by the Commissioner under paragraph 6(3A), and

b

after that sub-paragraph there is inserted—

2

Sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not require the Parliamentary corporation to pay any expenses incurred by the Commissioner which exceed or are otherwise not covered by a budget or, as the case may be, revised budget approved under paragraph 9A.

3

However, the Parliamentary corporation may pay those expenses.

4

The Parliamentary corporation is to indemnify the Commissioner in respect of any liabilities incurred by the Commissioner in the exercise of the Commissioner's functions.