“19. Board members, other than the president and chief executive officer and the members mentioned in the second paragraph of section 14, receive a remuneration made up of a basic annual amount plus an allowance for each meeting of the board and of the various committees under the authority of the board they attend, as follows:(1) the chair of the board receives an annual remuneration of $17,064, plus a flat-rate attendance allowance of $800 per meeting of the board and of the various board committees;
(2) the other board members receive an annual remuneration of $8,532, plus a flat-rate attendance allowance of $533 per meeting of the board and of the various board committees;
(3) board members who chair one of the three committees established under the first paragraph of section 30 receive an additional $3,200 annually;
(4) the attendance allowance per meeting of the board and of the various board committees is reduced by half for special brief meetings of the board or of a board committee held by telephone conference or some other means of distance communication;
(5) the remuneration set under this section is increased, from the year 2011, by a percentage equal to the percentage of increase applicable to the salary scales for management personnel in the public service and on the same dates;
(6) the remuneration of a retired public sector employee who is appointed to the board of directors is reduced by half of the amount of the pension received by the person from the public sector, which reduction applies to all remuneration, including attendance allowances;
(7) the chair of the board is entitled, on presentation of vouchers, to reimbursement of entertainment expenses incurred in the exercise of his or her functions, up to the maximum amount to be set by the Agency and in accordance with the rules and scales adopted by the Agency;
(8) board members are entitled to reimbursement of travel and living expenses incurred in the exercise of their functions, in accordance with the rules and scales adopted by the Agency.