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<Number>PART 6</Number>
<Title>Reporting on wider redress actions</Title>
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<Title>Annual report on wider redress actions</Title>
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<Text>Before the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the last day of each reporting period, a relevant person must prepare and send to the Scottish Ministers a report on the actions which the person has taken during the reporting period to redress the historical abuse of children (a “redress report”).</Text>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
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<Text>A redress report must, in particular, include—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>information about any support which the relevant person has provided for individuals who were abused as children, for example—</Text>
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<Pnumber>i</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>funding for emotional, psychological or practical support,</Text>
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<Pnumber>ii</Pnumber>
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<Text>advice and assistance on accessing historical records,</Text>
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<Pnumber>iii</Pnumber>
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<Text>advice and assistance on tracing and reuniting families,</Text>
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<Pnumber>iv</Pnumber>
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<Text>activity relating to the provision of an apology to such individuals,</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>such information as the relevant person considers appropriate about any other support which the relevant person has provided for individuals who were abused as children,</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
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<Text>where no support as described in paragraphs (a) and (b) has been provided by the relevant person, the reasons why.</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
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<Text>But a redress report must not, unless and to the extent that subsection (4) applies, include—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the name of any individual, or</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>any other information which could reasonably be used to identify any individual.</Text>
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<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This subsection applies where—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the relevant person consults an individual, and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>that individual gives the relevant person notification of the individual’s consent to be identified in the report.</Text>
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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/99/5/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/99/5" id="section-99-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Scottish Ministers must—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>collate the information from the redress reports sent to them under subsection (1) into a combined report for the year to which the reports relate, and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>publish the combined report.</Text>
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<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
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<Text>Where a person prepares a redress report and sends it to the Scottish Ministers despite not having a duty under subsection (1) to do so, the Scottish Ministers may collate the information from that report into the combined report to be published under subsection (5).</Text>
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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/99/7/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/99/7" id="section-99-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this section—</Text>
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<Text>“relevant person” means, in relation to a reporting period, a person included in the contributor list during the first 9 months of the reporting period,</Text>
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<Text>“reporting period” means—</Text>
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<Text>in the case of the first redress report, the period of 12 months beginning with the day this section comes into force,</Text>
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<Text>each successive period of 12 months until a date specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.</Text>
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<Title>Power of the Scottish Ministers to require production of report</Title>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This section applies where—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the Scottish Ministers consider that a person has a duty under section 99(1) to prepare a redress report and send it to Ministers, and has failed to comply with that duty, or</Text>
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<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/100/1/b/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/100/1/b" id="section-100-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>an application for a redress payment which results in an offer of a redress payment involves a person (other than an individual) who is not included in the contributor list on the date the panel appointed under section 35 or, as the case may be, a review panel appointed under section 55 determines that the applicant is eligible for the redress payment.</Text>
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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/100/2/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/100/2" id="section-100-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
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<Text>The Scottish Ministers may give a direction (a “reporting direction”) requiring the person to prepare a redress report and send it to Ministers before the end of—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which the direction was given, or</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>such longer period as Ministers specify in the direction.</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
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<Text>A person to whom a reporting direction is given must comply with it.</Text>
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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/100/4/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/100/4" id="section-100-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
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<Text>If the Scottish Ministers consider that a person to whom a reporting direction is given has failed to comply with it, they may publish the fact that the person has failed to do so.</Text>
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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/100/5/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/100/5" id="section-100-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
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<Text>The Scottish Ministers may revise or revoke a reporting direction.</Text>
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<Title>Power to make provision about additional redress reporting</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/101/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/101" id="section-101">
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<Text>The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision requiring a person who is a relevant person for the purpose of section 99 to include an additional statement in—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the person’s annual report, or</Text>
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<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/15/section/101/b/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2021/15/section/101/b" id="section-101-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>an equivalent document,</Text>
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<Text>on the support as described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 99(2) which the person has provided during a period specified in the regulations or, where no such support has been provided, that fact and the reasons why.</Text>
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