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

Duty to make fingerprint records available

12.—(1) Any person who holds records of fingerprints for the use of police forces generally must make those records available to the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of section 59 of the Disclosure Act (power to use fingerprints to check identity).

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to records that must be made available to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 59(5) of the Disclosure Act.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “police forces” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of section 59(5) of the Disclosure Act.