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Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

Crown Application

Part 6 - Other Housing Matters

New homes ombudsman

Section 74 - Disclosure of information to new homes ombudsman

185.Section 20 of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 provides that the Ombudsman may disclose relevant information to a person or body specified in the first column of schedule 5 of the 2002 Act if it relates to a matter specified in the second column.

186.Section 74 of the 2025 Act modifies that schedule so that the Ombudsman may also disclose relevant information to the new homes ombudsman (see section 137(3) of the Building Safety Act 2022) if it appears to the Ombudsman that it relates to a matter of which the new homes ombudsman could exercise any function conferred by the new homes ombudsman scheme (see section 136 of that Act).

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