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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.
Waiver
Section 48: Report on effect of waiver on participation in redress scheme

135.This section requires the Scottish Ministers to lay a report before the Scottish Parliament within 18 months of section 46 coming into force, setting out the Scottish Ministers’ assessment of any impact the waiver has on applications for a redress payment, and its effectiveness in encouraging public authorities, voluntary organisations and other persons to become scheme contributors. The report must also set out any steps they intend to take as a result of that assessment, and where they do not intend to take any such steps, their reasons for that.

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