Part 8: Oversight arrangements Chapter 1: Investigatory Powers Commissioner and other Judicial Commissioners Section 238: Funding, staff and facilities
Subsection (1) explains that the Judicial Commissioners will be paid a salary and may be paid expenses. The amount will be decided by the Treasury.
	Subsection (2) requires the Secretary of State to provide the IPC with the staff, accommodation, equipment, facilities and services that the Secretary of State considers necessary. It is intended that the resources afforded to the IPC ensure that the office is fully staffed with administrative, legal and technical support to ensure that the Commissioners are fully able to perform their oversight and authorisation functions and to hold those that use investigatory powers to account. In determining the resources that should be provided the Secretary of State must consult with the IPC. Treasury approval is required as to the number of staff. However, it is for the IPC to hire such staff and procure such services as they feel are necessary. Should the IPC believe that the resources afforded to them are insufficient, then they may publicly report the fact in their Annual Report or raise the matter with the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.
	This section also allows the Scottish Ministers to provide funding for the work done by Judicial Commissioners in relation to the exercise of devolved functions by Scottish public authorities. This might include, for example, Judicial Commissioners approving a decision by the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland to issue an equipment interference warrant.
	Subsections (5) to (7) allow the IPC and other Judicial Commissioners to delegate some of their functions to staff. It also allows delegation to other people acting on their behalf, which might include contractors. "Functions" include powers and duties (see the definition in section 246(1)) so, for example, the power to require the provision of assistance may be delegated. This will mean that inspectors carrying out inspections, investigations or audits on behalf of the Judicial Commissioners may have conferred on them the right to receive exactly the same levels of co-operation, access and assistance that the Commissioners themselves would receive. Certain judicial functions and functions relating to appointments cannot be delegated to members of staff.