Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022

16 Duty to seek views about regulations

(1) So long as regulations under section 8(1) remain in effect, the Scottish Ministers must seek views from the persons listed in subsection (2) about those regulations, and about any regulations under section 9(1) and 10(1) which are also in effect—

(a) before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the regulations under section 8(1) came into force, and

(b) before the end of each subsequent period of 28 days.

(2) The persons are—

(a) such persons as the Scottish Ministers consider representative of—

(i) relevant operators of educational establishments to which the regulations apply,

(ii) relevant managers of school boarding accommodation and student accommodation to which the regulations apply,

(iii) users of such establishments and accommodation (including children and young people),

(iv) staff of such establishments and accommodation (including any trade union which appears representative of such staff), and

(b) such other persons as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.

(3) In subsection (2)(a)(ii)—

• “relevant manager”, in relation to school boarding accommodation or student accommodation, means a person having responsibility for the management of the accommodation,

• “school boarding accommodation” has the meaning given by section 9(6),

• “student accommodation” has the meaning given by section 10(6).