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Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

Access to reports

87.Where an assessment report was used in making a determination of a person’s entitlement, section 60 gives the person a right to request a copy of it. The Scottish Ministers must comply with a request, except where it would breach data protection rules to provide the report (an example would be where it contains personal information about another individual that the person assessed has no right to see).

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