Finance (No. 2) Act 1992

Remuneration of General Commissioners etc.

2 (1) In section 2 (General Commissioners), the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (5)—

“(5) The Lord Chancellor or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State shall pay General Commissioners by way of travelling allowance or subsistence allowance sums of such amounts and in such circumstances as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine.”

(2) Section 3 (clerk to General Commissioners) shall be amended as mentioned in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) below.

(3) The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (2)—

“(2) The Lord Chancellor or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State shall pay a clerk such remuneration in respect of his services as the Lord Chancellor or Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine.”

(4) In subsection (3)—

(a) for “The Board may, in such cases as they may in their discretion determine” there shall be substituted “The Lord Chancellor or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State may, in such cases as he may in his discretion determine”,

(b) for “they may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service determine” there shall be substituted “he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine”, and

(c) for “the Board are satisfied” there shall be substituted “the Lord Chancellor or Secretary of State is satisfied”.

(5) This paragraph shall come into force on 1st April 1994.