Section 80Scotland.

(1) No order may be made under section 4(1) or 5 in relation to any of the bodies specified in subsection (2); and the power conferred by section 74(3) does not include power to make provision in relation to information held by any of those bodies.

(2) The bodies referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a)
the Scottish Parliament,
(b)
any part of the Scottish Administration,
(c)
the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, or
(d)
any Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions (within the meaning of the ^M1Scotland Act 1998).

(3) [^F1 Section 50 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 apply in relation to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 as they apply in relation to this Act.]

Amended text

This Section is shown as amended by S.I. 2004/3089 (see the annotations below), as incorporated in the text in force on 7 October 2026 as published on legislation.gov.uk.

Annotations

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 80(3) added (1.1.2005) by The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3089), art. 3(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 1998 c. 46.

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Text as at 7 October 2026.

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