Detailed Provisions Part 4: Financial redress: redress payments Chapter 6: Provision of information and evidence Section 83: Power to commission reports
245.This section provides the Scottish Ministers with the power to commission reports in connection with applications for fixed rate or individually assessed payments for the purpose of progressing the application, its determination, or the conducting of a review or reconsideration – provided the applicant has given their agreement for this. The determination of a matter by a review panel includes a review panel appointed under section 55 by virtue of another section (see also paragraph 235 of these Notes).