Deer (Scotland) Act 1959

Constitution of the Commission

1 The Commission shall be a body corporate and shall have a common seal.

2 Every member of the Commission shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the teams of the instrument under which he is appointed, but notwithstanding anything in such an instrument any member of the Commission may resign his office by a notice given under his hand to the Secretary of State, and a member of the Commission who ceases to hold office shall be eligible for reappointment to the Commission.

3 Part II of the First Schedule to the House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957 (which specifies certain commissions, tribunals and other bodies, all members of which are disqualified under that Act), shall have effect, in its application to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as if after the entry relating to the Pig Industry Development Authority there were inserted the following entry:—

• “The Red Deer Commission”.

4 The Secretary of State shall pay—

(a) to the Chairman of the Commission such remuneration and such allowances, and

(b) to the other members of the Commission such allowances as he may with the approval of the Treasury determine.

5 The Commission may pay to the members of any panel appointed in pursuance of section two of this Act the like allowances as are payable by the Secretary of State to members of the Commission under the last foregoing paragraph.