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(1)Where it appears to the Board, whether on a complaint made to it under section 18 below or otherwise, that a public body may have failed to carry out a scheme approved by the Board, the Board may conduct an investigation in order to ascertain whether there has been a failure.
(2)The procedure for conducting an investigation under this section shall be such as the Board considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case, and in particular an investigation may be conducted in private.
(3)The Board may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, pay to any person who attends or provides information for the purposes of an investigation—
(a)sums in respect of the expenses properly incurred by him, and
(b)allowances by way of compensation for the loss of his time,
in accordance with such scales and subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury.
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