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The Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information) (Scotland) Order 2005
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Disclosure for religious purposesS
4.—(1) It is not an offence under section 22 of the Act for a person who acquired protected information in an official capacity in relation to an organised religion to disclose that information to any other person acting in such a capacity if the conditions set out in paragraphs (2) and (3) are met.
(2) The disclosure is made for the purpose of enabling any person to make a decision in relation to–
(a)whether to solemnise or permit the marriage of the subject;
(b)the validity or dissolution of a marriage of the subject;
(c)the admission or appointment of the subject–
(i)as a minister of religion;
(ii)to any employment, office or post for the purposes of an organised religion;
(iii)to any religious order or community associated with an organised religion; or
(iv)to membership, or any category of membership, of an organised religion;
(d)the validity, suspension, termination or revocation of any admission or appointment mentioned in sub-paragraph (c); or
(e)the eligibility of the subject to receive or take part in any religious sacrament, ordinance or rite, or take part in any act of worship or prayer, according to the practices of an organised religion.
(3) The disclosure is made for the purpose of enabling any person to make a decision in relation to the matters specified in paragraph (2)(c), (d) or (e) and the person who makes the disclosure reasonably believes that the person to whom the disclosure is made may require the information in order to make a decision in a way which complies with the doctrines of the religion or avoids conflicting with the strongly held convictions of a significant number of the followers of the religion.
(4) It is not an offence under section 22 of the Act for a person who acquired protected information in an official capacity in relation to an organised religion, and who requires to make a decision in relation to the any of the matters specified in paragraph (2), to disclose that information to any person responsible for the supervision of the person making the disclosure.
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