Tayside Contracts Joint Committee
Tayside Contracts is a joint committee of Angus Council, Dundee City Council, and Perth & Kinross Council. *. 


It may be subject to access to information law via Schedule 1 paragraph 25 of the UK Freedom of Information Act which makes joint committees subject to the act, however there doesn't appear to be a directly analogous provision in the Freedom of Information Scotland Act. 



The body may be subject to Freedom of Information law via Section 6 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act if it is considered to be "owned" by the councils which have come together to form the joint committee.


The body may be subject to Freedom of Information law via Schedule 1 Paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Scotland Act, which makes "joint boards", subject to FOI,  if it is considered a "body corporate".


On their website Tayside Contracts state: "Tayside Contracts will attempt to respond to requests for information wherever possible, applying the same exemptions and within the same timescales as if the Act did apply."* This authority is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but answers requests for information voluntarily.