Environment Act 1995

30 Records held by SEPA. E+W+S

(1) Subject to subsection (3) below—

(a) this section applies to all records (in whatever form or medium)—

(i) transferred to and vested in SEPA by or under section 22 above;

(ii) created or acquired by it in the exercise of any of its functions; or

(iii) otherwise in its keeping;

F1 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e) SEPA—

(i) shall secure that the Keeper has, at all reasonable hours, unrestricted access to the records preserved by it;

(ii) may afford members of the public, free of charge or on payment of reasonable charges, facilities for inspecting and for obtaining copies or extracts from those records.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1)(e)(ii) above permits infringement of copyright or contravention of conditions subject to which records are in SEPA’s keeping.

(3) Insofar as any provision of any enactment, being a provision which relates to records of a specific kind, is (but for this subsection) inconsistent with subsection (1) above, that subsection is subject to the provision in question.

[F2 (4) In subsection (3) above, “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 30(1)(b)-(d) repealed (S.) (1.1.2013) by Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 12), ss. 14(c), 16(1); S.S.I. 2012/247, art. 2

F2 S. 30(4) added (S.) (30.6.2014) by Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 3), s. 61(2), sch. 3 para. 43(3); S.S.I. 2014/160, art. 2(1)(2)