Consumer Scotland Act 2020

Consumer Scotland Act 2020

2020 asp 11

The Act

Overview

Part 1

Consumer Scotland

Information-gathering

Section 13 – Exemptions from requirement to provide information

35. Section 13 provides exemptions from the requirement to provide information. Subsection (1) means that no person may be required under section 9(1) or section 12 to provide information which they could not be compelled to provide in legal proceedings before the Court of Session.

36. This section also gives the Scottish Ministers the power to prescribe additional exemptions from the requirement to provide information to Consumer Scotland. They would do so by regulations and can detail the persons, type of information or circumstances to which an exemption could apply.