SCOTTISH MINISTERS' CODE OF PRACTICE ON THE DISCHARGE OF FUNCTIONS BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
Footnotes
1 The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, section 15
2 This instrument is subject to affirmative procedure in the Scottish Parliament. That means that a draft must be subject to debate first in the Parliament and it must receive an affirmative resolution of the Parliament before the instrument can be brought into force.
3 This instrument is subject to the simpler Parliamentary negative procedure in which there is no mandatory prior debate and vote.
4 The regulations do not introduce the provisions in the Act to aggregate costs where two or more requests are made by one person (Section 12(2)(a)) or by different persons who appear to be acting in concert or whose requests appear to have been instigated for a purpose other than obtaining the information itself (section 12 (2) (b) of the Act. This approach will be reviewed in due course and if it appears that requests of this nature are presenting difficulties the provision can be included in future revised regulations.