The Forensic Medical Services (Self-Referral Evidence Retention Period) (Scotland) Regulations 2022
These Regulations specify the period after which a health board, as soon as is reasonably practicable, must ensure that evidence collected during a self-referral forensic medical examination and stored by it is destroyed. Regulation 2 sets the period as 26 months. That period does not apply in circumstances where the person who underwent the examination requests that the evidence is destroyed and a period of 30 days since that request was made has expired (unless the 26 month period expires earlier than the 30 days), or where a request has been made for the evidence to be transferred to the police.