Part 1 SThe Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland

3The Commissioner’s functions: further provisionS

(1)The Scottish Ministers must provide the Commissioner with such information as the Commissioner reasonably requires in the exercise of the Commissioner’s functions.

(2)The Scottish Ministers may by order—

(a)amend schedule 2; or

(b)in relation to appointments to the specified authorities—

(i)confer on the Commissioner any additional function; or

(ii)remove any function of the Commissioner,

which they consider appropriate so to confer or remove.

[F1(2A)Before making an order under subsection (2)(b), the Scottish Ministers must consult the Parliamentary corporation.]

(3)Where—

(a)an office or body is to be established; and

(b)when established, the office or body is to be specified in schedule 2,

the Scottish Ministers may by order provide that the office or body is to be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to the office or body, as if it were one of the specified authorities.

(4)Each body mentioned in section 4 is to be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to the body made before that section comes into force as respects the body, as if it were one of the specified authorities.