Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

Regulations

58 Regulations: inspections

(1) Regulations may make further provision concerning inspections under this Part.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision—

(a) as to types of inspection which may be conducted,

(b) as to timing and frequency of inspections,

(c) as to seizure and removal of anything found during the course of an inspection,

(d) as to persons who may be authorised to carry out inspections,

(e) requiring or facilitating the sharing or production of information (including health records) for the purposes of an inspection under this Part,

(f) as to interviews and examinations (including physical and mental examinations) which may be carried out in connection with the inspections,

(g) requiring any person to provide to an authorised person an explanation of information produced to an authorised person,

(h) requiring information produced to an authorised person to be held in compliance with prescribed conditions and further disclosures to be made in compliance with such conditions,

(i) empowering an authorised person to disclose to a person prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph any information of a prescribed nature which the authorised person holds in consequence of such an inspection,

(j) creating offences punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale for the purpose of enforcing any provision of the regulations.

(3) In subsection (2), “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations under subsection (1).