Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016

97 Funeral director: code of practice

(1) A funeral director must comply with any code of practice issued by the Scottish Ministers about the carrying out of a funeral director’s functions (a “funeral director’s code”).

(2) Before issuing any funeral director’s code, the Scottish Ministers must consult—

(a) persons appearing to the Scottish Ministers to be representative of the interests of funeral directors in Scotland, and

(b) other persons appearing to the Scottish Ministers to have an interest.

(3) After taking account of any representations received by them by virtue of subsection (2), the Scottish Ministers must lay a draft of the funeral director’s code before the Scottish Parliament.

(4) The Scottish Ministers may not issue a funeral director’s code unless a draft of the code is approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

(5) The Scottish Ministers must publish a funeral director’s code in such manner as they consider appropriate.

(6) The Scottish Ministers must keep under review a funeral director’s code.

(7) In this section, references to a funeral director’s code include references to a funeral director’s code as revised from time to time by the Scottish Ministers.