{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/11",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Subsequent appointments etc. of former Commissioner",
  "text": "(1) A person who has ceased to be the Commissioner may not, without the approval of the Parliamentary corporation—\n(a) be employed, or appointed in any other capacity, by the Commissioner,\n(b) be a member, employee or appointee of—\n(i) the Standards Commission for Scotland,\n(ii) a specified authority, or\n(iii) a devolved public body,\n(c) be a specified authority (where the authority is an individual),\n(d) be, or be an employee or appointee of, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, or\n(e) hold any other office, employment or appointment or engage in any other occupation, being an office, employment, appointment or occupation which, by virtue of section 9(7)(a), that person could not have held or, as the case may be, engaged in when the Commissioner.\n(2) The restriction in subsection (1)—\n(a) starts when the person ceases to be the Commissioner, and\n(b) ends on the expiry of the financial year following the one in which it started.\n(3) In this section—\n(a) the following expressions have the following meanings—\n“specified authority” means any of the specified authorities referred to in section 2(1) of the Public Appointments Act,\n“devolved public body” has the meaning given by section 28(1) of the Ethical Standards Act,\n(b) the reference to a member of a specified authority includes a reference to—\n(i) a member, by co-option, of any committee of a specified authority,\n(ii) a holder of a paid office appointed by a specified authority, and\n(c) a paid office is one where the holder is entitled to remuneration, allowances or expenses or any combination of them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 11(1)(a) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 11(1)(e) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 11(2)(a) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/11/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:24.644769+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}