Section 13(1) of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (“the Act”) requires each local authority to appoint for their area one or more officers to be known as Licensing Standards Officers. Section 16 of the Act requires such Officers to comply with such requirements as to training as may be prescribed. Regulation 2 prescribes a relevant training requirement.

In terms of paragraph 11 of schedule 1 to the Act, each member of a Licensing Board must, within a specified period of being elected or re-elected, produce evidence that he or she has complied with prescribed training requirements. Regulation 3 prescribes a relevant training requirement.