PART 4Financial redress: redress payments
CHAPTER 6Provision of information and evidence
I183Power to commission reports
1
The Scottish Ministers may commission or arrange the commission of such reports as they consider to be reasonably necessary for the purposes of—
a
progressing an application for a fixed rate payment or an individually assessed payment,
b
the determination of such an application by a panel appointed under section 35,
c
the conducting of a review in relation to such an application by a panel appointed under section 55, or
d
the reconsideration of a determination in relation to such an application by a panel appointed under section 75.
2
But no report may be commissioned under subsection (1) without the applicant's consent.