SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Minor and consequential amendments

Part IIScotland

Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)

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In section 66 (codes of practice)—

a

subsection (2) is repealed,

b

in subsection (4), for “Customers Council” there is substituted “Commissioner”,

c

in subsection (5), for the words from “apply” in the second place where it occurs to the end there is substituted “to a charges scheme made under that section”, and

d

after subsection (6) there is inserted—

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The Commissioner—

a

shall monitor the compliance by each authority with their code of practice as so approved,

b

may advise the Secretary of State on such compliance, and

c

may request an authority to review their code of practice, or any provision of it, in such respects as the Commissioner may specify.