{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freedom-of-information-scotland-act-2002/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freedom-of-information-scotland-act-2002/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/13",
  "legislation_title": "Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freedom-of-information-scotland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Publicly-owned companies",
  "text": "(1) A company is a “publicly-owned company” for the purposes of section 3(1)(b) if it is wholly owned—\n(a) by the Scottish Ministers; or\n(b) by any other Scottish public authority listed in schedule 1, other than an authority so listed only in relation to information of a specified description.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a company is wholly owned—\n(a) by the Scottish Ministers if it has no members except—\n(i) the Scottish Ministers or companies wholly owned by the Scottish Ministers; or\n(ii) persons acting on behalf of the Scottish Ministers or of such companies; and\n(b) by any other Scottish public authority if it has no members except—\n(i) the authority or companies wholly owned by the authority; or\n(ii) persons acting on behalf of the authority or of such companies.\n(3) In subsections (1) and (2), “company” includes any body corporate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/13/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:59.929274+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}