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Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021

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Part 4: Financial redress: redress payments

Chapter 1: Determination of applications for redress payments.
Applications
Section 32: Pausing of application

90.A redress application may be paused, or resumed after being paused, at the request of the applicant (made in writing to the Scottish Ministers), at any time before a determination has been made. In relation to “writing”, see paragraph 60 of these Notes.

91.The Scottish Ministers must notify Redress Scotland of a request once it is received by the Scottish Ministers. Once Redress Scotland receives this request, the determination of the application must be stopped until the application is resumed by the applicant requesting this, or until it is withdrawn (as provided for under section 33).

92.Subsection (5) states that where an application is paused under this section, it is to be treated as being withdrawn on the final day of the application period unless the applicant requests that their application should be resumed or withdrawn on or before the final day. This provides a longstop date in the event that there is no further engagement by the applicant with the paused application.

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