Scottish Statutory Instruments
Disclosure Of Information
Made
15th March 2022
Coming into force
16th March 2022
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 48(5) and 56(6) of the Digital Economy Act 2017(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
They have consulted the Information Commissioner, the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Welsh Ministers, the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, the Minister for the Cabinet Office and such other persons as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate, as required by sections 48(11) and 56(12) of the Digital Economy Act 2017.
The Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the persons, and descriptions of persons, added by these Regulations comply with the conditions in section 48(7) and (8) and section 56(8) and (9) of the Digital Economy Act 2017.
In accordance with sections 48(10) and 56(11) of the Digital Economy Act 2017, the Scottish Ministers have had regard to the systems and procedures for the secure handling of information by the persons referred to in regulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations.
In accordance with sections 54(5) and 62(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.
2017 c. 30 (“the 2017 Act”). The Scottish Ministers are the appropriate national authority in respect of the bodies to which these Regulations relate by virtue of sections 55(2) and 63(2) of the 2017 Act.