Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

15 Information sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers

(1) A local authority may share any information obtained by it under any provision of this Chapter with—

(a) the Scottish Ministers for the purpose of or in connection with—

(i) assisting the Scottish Ministers in the exercise of any of their functions under this Chapter, or

(ii) enabling or assisting the local authority in the exercise of any of its own functions under this Chapter, or

(b) another local authority for the purpose of or in connection with—

(i) assisting the other local authority in the exercise of any of its functions under this Chapter, or

(ii) enabling or assisting the local authority in the exercise of any of its own functions under this Chapter.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may share any information obtained by them under any provision of this Chapter with a local authority for the purpose of or in connection with—

(a) assisting the local authority in the exercise of any of its functions under this Chapter, or

(b) enabling or assisting the Scottish Ministers in the exercise of any of their own functions under this Chapter.

(3) In this section, references to sharing information obtained by a person under any provision of this Chapter include references to sharing information so obtained that has been collated, analysed or otherwise processed by (or on behalf of) the person.

(4) In exercising their powers under section 14(1) or (2), local authorities and the Scottish Ministers must cooperate with each other to seek to ensure that so far as possible they collectively do not make a request more than once in a 12 month period for the same information from the same person about the same house (or the same part of a house for which there is more than one tenancy or occupancy arrangement).