{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-biometrics-commissioner-act-2020/section-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power to work with others",
  "text": "The Commissioner may, in the exercise of the Commissioner's functions, work jointly with, assist or consult—\n(a) the Scottish Parliament,\n(b) the Scottish Ministers,\n(c) the Lord Advocate,\n(d) the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland,\n(e) Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary in Scotland,\n(f) the Scottish Police Authority,\n(g) the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner,\n(h) the Information Commission,\n(i) the Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material,\n(j) the Scottish Human Rights Commission,\n(k) such other persons as the Commissioner considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(h) 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)(a); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}