The Scottish Ministers may arrange for a single-building assessment to be carried out in relation to a building.

Anything that needs to be done on premises for the purposes of carrying out an assessment arranged under subsection (1) may not be done, without the consent of the premises’ owner, before the end of the notice period.

The notice period is a period of 7 days beginning with the day that the Scottish Ministers give the premises’ owner a written notice explaining what the carrying out of the assessment may entail.

At the same time as giving notice to the premises’ owner in order to begin the notice period, the Scottish Ministers are to give a written notice in the same terms to any occupier of the premises.