# The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008, Paragraph 3: Pre-release access restricted to individuals

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(1) Access granted under paragraph 2(1)(a) to (g) must be restricted to individual ministers, office-holders or officials.
(2) Those individual ministers, office-holders or officials may share such access with a person providing them with administrative or technical support.
(3) Those individual ministers, office-holders or officials may (without prejudice to sub-paragraph (2)) pass on the statistics to other individual ministers, office-holders or officials of the public body in which they hold office, or of another public body, only–
(a) where necessary for the purpose under paragraph 2(1)(a) to (g) for which access is being granted;
(b) with the prior agreement in writing of the person responsible; and
(c) where a record of that other individual being given access is kept under paragraph 8 by the person responsible.
(4) Access granted under paragraph 2(1)(h) must be restricted to named individuals.
(5) In sub-paragraph (3)(b), “in writing” includes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 which is recorded and consequently capable of being reproduced.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/399/schedule/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pre-release-access-to-official-statistics-scotland-order-2008/schedule/paragraph-3
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