Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 15)

Valid from 28/06/2021

PART 4 S Financial redress: redress payments

CHAPTER 6 S Provision of information and evidence

Valid from 07/12/2021

83 Power to commission reports S

(1) The Scottish Ministers may commission or arrange the commission of such reports as they consider to be reasonably necessary for the purposes of—

(a) progressing an application for a fixed rate payment or an individually assessed payment,

(b) the determination of such an application by a panel appointed under section 35,

(c) the conducting of a review in relation to such an application by a panel appointed under section 55, or

(d) the reconsideration of a determination in relation to such an application by a panel appointed under section 75.

(2) But no report may be commissioned under subsection (1) without the applicant's consent.