Section 80 — Freedom of Information Act 2000: Scotland.
Text of the provision Official document
Scotland. 80 1 No order may be made under section 4(1) or 5 in relation to any of the bodies specified in subsection (2); and the power conferred by section 74(3) does not include power to make provision in relation to information held by any of those bodies.
2 The bodies referred to in subsection (1) are—
a the Scottish Parliament, b any part of the Scottish Administration, c the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, or d any Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions (within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998).
3 Section 50 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 apply in relation to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 as they apply in relation to this Act.
Official source: legislation.gov.uk
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