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(1)Rules and principles provided for by the Scottish Ministers by order made under section 11(2) on or after the day on which this section comes into force may not provide for the granting of pre-release access to official statistics on Scotland's gross domestic product or Scottish retail sales (whether by volume or value).
(2)Subsection (1) does not apply to provision made under section 11(2) to give effect to a recommendation contained in the report laid before the Scottish Parliament in accordance with section 3 of the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Act 2021.
(3)Rules and principles provided for by the Scottish Ministers by order under section 11(2) may not allow pre-release access to economic statistics for a period exceeding 1 working day before publication.
(4)In subsection (3), “economic statistics”—
(a)includes official statistics concerning devolved and local taxes, local government finance, labour productivity, exports, capital and revenue outturn budget estimates, government expenditure and revenue, oil production and gas production; but
(b)does not include statistics produced by the Scottish Ministers in the exercise of a function which is exercisable by them pursuant to an Order made under section 63(1)(a) of the Scotland Act 1998.
(5)Subsections (1) and (3) do not prevent the Scottish Ministers from providing in rules and principles made by order under section 11—
(a)for the granting of pre-release access to official statistics on Scotland's gross domestic product or Scottish retail sales (whether by volume or value);
(b)that there should be no maximum period for pre-release access to official statistics,
in respect of cases where the condition set out in subsection (6) is met.
(6)That condition is that the person responsible considers that pre-release access is necessary to ensure, where a publication or other material is being prepared by or on behalf of any public body or office-holder for publication at the same time or shortly after the publication of the official statistics, that any statistics contained in that publication or material are correct or that the publication or material is otherwise properly informed by those official statistics.
(7)Nothing in this section prevents the Scottish Ministers from providing in rules and principles made by order under section 11 for the release of official statistics in their final form to any individual directly responsible for their printing and production for use solely for those purposes.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 11A inserted (S.) (22.4.2021) by Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 11), ss. 1(3), 4
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