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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010/section-21",
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  "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/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Funding",
  "text": "(1) The Parliamentary corporation is to—\n(a) pay the remuneration and allowances of the Commissioner,\n(b) pay any expenses properly incurred by the Commissioner in the performance of the Commissioner’s functions, so far as not met out of sums received and applied by the Commissioner under section 12(5),\n(c) indemnify the ... Commissioner in respect of any liabilities incurred by the Commissioner in the performance of the Commissioner's functions.\n(2) Subsection (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, a revised budget approved under section 20.\n(3) However, the Parliamentary corporation may pay those expenses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(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. 23(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(1)(b) 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. 23(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(1)(b) 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. 23(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(1)(b) 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. 23(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(1)(c) omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of 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. 23(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(1)(c) 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. 23(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(1)(c) 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. 23(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(2) 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. 23(d)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/11/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:24.644769+00:00"
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  "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."
}