Part 1Access to information held by Scottish public authorities
Right to information
7 Public authorities to which Act has limited application
1
An order under section 4(1)(a) may, in adding an entry to schedule 1, list the authority only in relation to information of a specified description; and where an authority is so listed nothing in this Act applies to any other information held by the authority.
2
The Scottish Ministers may by order amend that schedule—
a
by limiting the entry relating to an authority to information of a specified description; or
b
by removing or amending any such limitation for the time being contained in an entry so relating.
3
Nothing in this Act applies to information held by a person designated as a Scottish public authority by order under subsection (1) of section 5 if the order is made by virtue of—
a
subsection (2)(a) of that section and the information does not relate to the functions; or
b
subsection (2)(b) of that section and the information does not relate to the service,
specified in the order.
4
Nothing in this Act applies in relation to information—
a
held by a publicly-owned company; and
b
of a description specified in relation to that company in an order made for the purposes of this subsection by the Scottish Ministers.