SCHEDULE 4SAmendments of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 13)

ExpensesS

4SAfter subsection (11) of that section there is inserted—

(11A)Subsection (11)(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, revised budget approved under paragraph 4A of schedule 2.

(11B)However, the Parliamentary corporation may pay those expenses.

(11C)The Parliamentary corporation is to indemnify the Commissioner in respect of any liabilities incurred by the Commissioner in the exercise of the Commissioner's functions under this Act.