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Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021

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6Statement on exercise of functionsS

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(1)Each responsible body—

(a)must, as soon as reasonably practicable after guidance is first issued to the body under section 5,

(b)may, at any other time,

prepare a written statement describing the plans mentioned in subsection (2).

(2)The plans are the responsible body's plans for—

(a)the exercise of its functions under section 1, 2 or, as the case may be, 3 (including in particular a summary of the arrangements required, by subsection (1) of whichever of those sections applies, to be established and maintained by the responsible body),

(b)the provision of information under section 8.

(3)A statement prepared under subsection (1) must also explain—

(a)the ways in which the arrangements mentioned in subsection (2)(a) comply with section 4, and

(b)how, in developing the plans and arrangements mentioned in subsection (2), the responsible body has had regard to guidance issued under section 5 (as the guidance is in force at the time the statement is prepared and as it relates to the body).

(4)Subsection (5) applies where guidance issued to a responsible body under section 5 and in force at the time the responsible body prepares a statement under subsection (1) includes guidance about the exercise of the functions conferred by this section and section 7.

(5)The statement must also explain how, in exercising the functions mentioned in subsection (4), the responsible body has had regard to that guidance (as it relates to the body).

(6)A statement prepared under subsection (1) may include such other information as the responsible body thinks appropriate.

(7)The responsible body must publish each statement prepared under subsection (1) in such ways as the body thinks appropriate.

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I1S. 6 in force at 18.3.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/104, reg. 2(b)

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