Section 3: Establishment
6.Section 3(1) provides for the creation of a new body to be known as ‘Redress Scotland’. The Gaelic name Ceartaich Alba has equal legal status.
7.Subsection (2) states that it is a body corporate. This means that it has a legal personality separate from that of the people who comprise it.
8.Subsection (3) provides that Redress Scotland has the functions conferred on it under or by virtue of this Act and any other enactment.