(1)Redress Scotland and the Scottish Ministers must, on request, provide a person with access to any information or evidence held by it or them which has been obtained by or provided to it or them in connection with the person’s application for a redress payment.
(2)Where the person making the request is a nominated beneficiary who has taken over the application by virtue of section 71, the information or evidence to be provided under subsection (1) includes information or evidence which has been obtained or provided in connection with the application prior to it being taken over.
(3)Nothing in this section authorises the disclosure of any information or evidence—
(a)that would be likely to identify any person other than the person making the request or the person in respect of whom the application is made,
(b)that would be in contravention of the data protection legislation.
(4)In this section, “the data protection legislation” has the meaning given by section 3(9) of the Data Protection Act 2018.