http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/13/section/10Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for the disclosure of information held by Scottish public authorities or by persons providing services for them; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-02-26Expert Participation2024-02-15 Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002sch. 1 para. 74APatient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Act 2023sch. 2 para. 2(2)s. 24(2) Part 1 101Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a Scottish public authority receiving a request which requires it to comply with section 1(1) must comply promptly; and in any event by not later than the twentieth working day after—ain a case other than that mentioned in paragraph (b), the receipt by the authority of the request; orbin a case where section 1(3) applies, the receipt by it of the further information.2If—athe authority is the Keeper of the Records of Scotland; andbthe information is information to which section 22(2) to (5) applies,subsection (1) applies with the substitution, for the reference to the twentieth working day, of a reference to the thirtieth working day.3Where the authority gives a fees notice to the applicant and the fee is duly paid, the working days in the period—abeginning with the day on which that notice is given; andbending with the day on which the fee is received by the authority,are to be disregarded in calculating, for the purposes of subsection (1), the twentieth (or as the case may be the thirtieth ) working day mentioned in that subsection.4The Scottish Ministers may by regulations provide that subsections (1) and (3) are to have effect as if references to the twentieth (or as the case may be the thirtieth) working day were references to such other working day, not later than the sixtieth, after receipt by the authority of the request as is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the regulations.5Regulations under subsection (4) may—aprescribe different days in relation to different cases; andbconfer a discretion on the Scottish Information Commissioner, exercisable both at the request of the authority and where no such request has been made.S. 10(1)(3) modified (1.12.2016) by The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Time for Compliance) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/346), regs. 1, 2(2) (with reg. 2(1))