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(1)The Scottish Ministers and Redress Scotland may, in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (2), disclose information to each other.
(2)The circumstances are that disclosure of the information is—
(a)necessary to enable the Scottish Ministers or Redress Scotland to perform a function conferred on them or on it under or by virtue of this Act, or
(b)otherwise necessary for or in connection with the operation of the redress scheme.
(3)Nothing in this section authorises a disclosure of any information that would be in contravention of the data protection legislation.
(4)In this section, “the data protection legislation” has the meaning given by section 3(9) of the Data Protection Act 2018.
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