Part I

The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Chapter II

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Other functions etc. of SEPA

Records held by SEPA.
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1
Subject to subsection (3) below—
a
this section applies to all records (in whatever form or medium)—
i
transferred to and vested in SEPA by or under section 22 above;
ii
created or acquired by it in the exercise of any of its functions; or
iii
otherwise in its keeping;
b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
d. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
e
SEPA—
i
shall secure that the Keeper has, at all reasonable hours, unrestricted access to the records preserved by it;
ii
may afford members of the public, free of charge or on payment of reasonable charges, facilities for inspecting and for obtaining copies or extracts from those records.
2
Nothing in subsection (1)(e)(ii) above permits infringement of copyright or contravention of conditions subject to which records are in SEPA’s keeping.
3
Insofar as any provision of any enactment, being a provision which relates to records of a specific kind, is (but for this subsection) inconsistent with subsection (1) above, that subsection is subject to the provision in question.
4
In subsection (3) above, “
enactment
” includes an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament.
S. 30(1)(b)-(d) repealed (S.) (1.1.2013) by Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 12), ss. 14(c), 16(1); S.S.I. 2012/247, art. 2
S. 30(4) added (S.) (30.6.2014) by Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 3), s. 61(2), sch. 3 para. 43(3); S.S.I. 2014/160, art. 2(1)(2)