PART 2

GIVING OF ASSISTANCE BY SCOTTISH MINISTERS
CHAPTER 6

OFFENCES AND INVESTIGATIONS

Investigations

Code of practice on investigations
76
1
The Scottish Ministers must publish a code of practice on investigations carried out by virtue of section 75.
2
The Scottish Ministers—
a
must keep the code of practice under review,
b
may from time to time revise the code of practice.
3
Before publishing the code of practice, the Scottish Ministers must consult publicly on a draft of the code.
4
The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after publication, lay before the Scottish Parliament a copy of the code of practice.
5
A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings must take the code of practice into account when determining any question to which the code is relevant.
6
Breach of the code of practice does not of itself give rise to grounds for any legal action.
7
Subsections (2) to (6) apply in relation to a revised code of practice as they apply in relation to the first published code of practice.