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Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021
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3Specified public service bodies to ensure period products obtainable free of charge by persons in their premisesS
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(1)Each public service body specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers (a “specified public service body”) must ensure that period products are obtainable free of charge (in accordance with arrangements established and maintained by the body) by persons in its premises who need to use them.
(2)A specified public service body is to do so by providing period products, or securing their provision, in such locations within those premises as are specified in arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1).
(3)Where a specified public service body operates over a number of sites in Scotland, the locations specified in the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) must include locations in premises at each such site.
(4)The period products obtainable free of charge by a person under the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) are to be sufficient products to meet the person's needs while the person is in the premises.
(5)Before specifying a body under this section, the Scottish Ministers—
(a)must consult the body, and
(b)may consult any other body or person they think appropriate.
(6)Bodies may be specified for the purposes of this section by reference to a class that they are in.
(7)Where they are proposed to be so specified, subsection (5) applies in relation to each of those bodies.
(8)Regulations under this section may specify that different provisions of this Act are, in relation to a public service body specified in the regulations, to take effect on different days.
(9)Regulations under this section may—
(a)make incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision,
(b)make different provision for different purposes.
(10)Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure.
(11)In this section, “public service body” means a body—
(a)constituted by or under an enactment, and
(b)having functions that consist of or include providing public services or otherwise serving the public interest.
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I1S. 3 in force at 15.8.2022 by S.S.I. 2022/208, reg. 2(c)
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