8Consultation with Strategic Advisory Council
(1)Qualifications Scotland must, in the exercise of its functions, consult the Strategic Advisory Council in every case in which it appears to Qualifications Scotland appropriate to do so.
(2)Qualifications Scotland must have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers as to the fulfilment of the requirement imposed by subsection (1).
(3)The Scottish Ministers must publish any guidance issued as mentioned in subsection (2).
(4)Qualifications Scotland must publish its procedures for—
(a)fulfilling the requirement imposed by subsection (1),
(b)providing responses to any advice provided to it by the council.
(5)If Qualifications Scotland revises the procedures published under subsection (4), it must publish the procedures as revised.