{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/12",
  "legislation_title": "Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Power to work with others",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner may, in the exercise of the Commissioner’s functions—\n(a) work with a person mentioned in subsection (2), on such terms as may be agreed with the person,\n(b) when requested by such a person, provide assistance to the person,\n(c) consult such a person.\n(2) The persons are—\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) His 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 Commissioner,\n(i) the Scottish Human Rights Commission,\n(j) the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland,\n(k) such other persons as the Commissioner considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/386",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:38:41.807774+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."
}