Commentary on Provisions Formal investigations Section 10: Investigation report
20.Subsection (1) provides that, following the conclusion of an investigation under section 8, the Commissioner must prepare a report on the investigation and lay a copy of it before the Scottish Parliament.
21.The report must set out the Commissioner’s findings in relation to the issue which has been investigated and the reasons for them, together with the Commissioner’s recommendations in light of those findings (subsection (2)).
22.A copy of the report must be given to each person to whom a recommendation in the report is addressed (subsection (3)).
23.Recommendations may be addressed to any person the Commissioner considers appropriate, even if they were not identified in the Commissioner’s terms of reference for an investigation as a person to whom the Commissioner was expecting to address a recommendation (subsection (4)(a)). This applies even if the Commissioner did not take steps to bring the investigation’s terms of reference to that person’s attention in accordance with section 8(3)(b).