PART 3Further duties to provide information for the Disclosure Act’s purposes
Duty to provide other information requested by the Scottish Ministers
article 13 13.—(1) The Scottish Ministers may by notice require any person mentioned in paragraph (2) to provide them with information which they—
article 13 1 a (a)believe the person holds, and
article 13 1 b (b)consider is necessary to carry out their functions under Part 1 of the Disclosure Act.
(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—
article 13 2 a (a)the chief officer of a UK law-enforcement body;
article 13 2 b (b)a local authority in England and Wales within the meaning of section 1(4) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970(1);
article 13 2 c (c)the Secretary of State;
article 13 2 d (d)the Disclosure and Barring Service;
article 13 2 e (e)the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;
article 13 2 f (f)any other person the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate whom they could not require to provide the information under section 65(2) of the Disclosure Act.
(3) The chief officer of a UK law-enforcement body must not provide information by virtue of a notice under paragraph (1) if the chief officer thinks that disclosing the information would be contrary to the interests of the prevention or detection of crime.
1970 c. 39. Section 1(4) was relevantly amended by Schedule 30 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), paragraph 47 of Schedule 84 and Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 6 to the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4), Schedule 13 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), section 25(8) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), section 388 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), paragraph 1 of Schedule 20 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 22 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), paragraph 6(6) of Schedule 13 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 33 of Schedule 2 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), paragraph 22 of Schedule 4 to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55) and S.I. 2021/327.