Publicly Owned Companies
The Act also covers publicly-owned companies (S 6). Any company which is wholly-owned by a Scottish Public Authority is itself a public authority for the purposes of the Act. This means inter alia that such companies will themselves have to adopt and maintain an publication scheme, and to publish information in accordance with that scheme. This MPS does not cover such companies, because of the variety of their functions and purposes, although it does require institutions to publish information about their relationship with such companies.
Edinburgh Napier University owns five such companies:
Publication Schemes for each of the companies listed above can be found under Category 12.3: Governance.