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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-biometrics-commissioner-act-2020/section-10",
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  "legislation": "asp/2020/8",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-biometrics-commissioner-act-2020",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Consultation on the code",
  "text": "(1) In preparing a draft code of practice, the Commissioner must consult—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers,\n(b) the Lord Advocate,\n(c) the Lord Justice General,\n(d) the Faculty of Advocates,\n(e) the Law Society of Scotland,\n(f) the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland,\n(g) Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary in Scotland,\n(h) the Scottish Police Authority,\n(i) the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner,\n(j) the Information Commission,\n(k) the Scottish Human Rights Commission,\n(l) the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland, and\n(m) such other persons as the Commissioner considers appropriate.\n(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), it is immaterial that anything done by way of consultation was done before this section comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(1)(j) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 32(1), (2)(b); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/250, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/8/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:49.416107+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."
}