Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Act 2023 Explanatory Notes

Miscellaneous provisions

Section 17: Reports

46.Aside from the reports which the Commissioner has a duty to lay before the Scottish Parliament, section 17(1) permits the Commissioner to lay before the Parliament any other report prepared by the Commissioner if the Commissioner considers it appropriate to do so.

47.Subsection (2) provides that the Commissioner must ensure any report prepared which is to be laid before the Parliament does not name or otherwise identify an individual who has given information to the Commissioner but who has not consented to being named in the report.

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