Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

Regulation of activities

4 (1) Prohibiting persons from carrying on, or from causing or permitting others to carry on, any regulated activity.

(2) Prohibiting persons from carrying on any regulated activity except so far as it is—

(a) authorised by or underthe regulations, and

(b) carried on in accordance with the regulations.

(3) Enabling the carrying on of regulated activities to be authorised by providing that they are to be carried on—

(a) in accordance with a permit granted by a regulator under the regulations (a “permit”),

(b) subject to a requirement to register the carrying on of the activity with a regulator (“registration”),

(c) subject to a requirement to notify a regulator that the activity is being, or is proposed to be, carried on (“notification”),

(d) subject to compliance with rules specified in or made under the regulations (“general binding rules”).

(4) Enabling the carrying on of regulated activities to be authorised by means of a permit, registration or notification whether or not the carrying on of those activities is also subject to general binding rules.

(5) Specifying a procedure under which the regulators may determine general binding rules.

(6) Treating as authorised the carrying on of regulated activities which are subject to general binding rules.

(7) Specifying the subsistence of an authorisation to carry on regulated activities which are subject to general binding rules.