PART 3Further duties to provide information for the Disclosure Act’s purposes

Duty to provide personal data for checking identity

11.—(1) A personal data holder must, on request, provide the Scottish Ministers with the information described in paragraph (2) to enable the Scottish Ministers to exercise their function under section 58 of the Disclosure Act (power to use personal data to check identity).

(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is information that—

(a)the personal data holder thinks it appropriate to provide in response to the request, and

(b)is held by a personal data holder.

(3) In this article, “personal data holder” means a person mentioned in section 58(2)(b) or (c) of the Disclosure Act.