Detailed Provisions Part 4: Financial redress: redress payments Chapter 6: Provision of information and evidence Section 81: Redress Scotland’s power in relation to information and evidence
241.This section provides that Redress Scotland may ask the Scottish Minsters to issue a notice to provide evidence or issue a notice to provide details regarding previous payments which a person has received in relation to relevant abuse. Furthermore, Redress Scotland may ask the Scottish Ministers themselves to provide evidence they hold which is relevant to an application for a redress payment. The Scottish Ministers must comply with such requests within the specified period: in the case of issuing a notice to a third party, that period is four weeks; in the case of providing evidence themselves, that period is such period as Redress Scotland specifies (which must be at least four weeks).