Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015

23 Regulations

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision about participation requests.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular make provision for or in connection with specifying—

(a) the manner in which requests are to be made,

(b) the procedure to be followed by public service authorities in relation to requests,

(c) the procedure to be followed by public authorities in relation to requests that include a request of the type mentioned in section 22(6),

(d) the information to be provided in connection with requests (in addition to that required under section 22(2)),

(e) ways in which public service authorities are to promote the use of participation requests,

(f) support that public service authorities are to make available to community participation bodies to enable such bodies to make a participation request and participate in any outcome improvement process resulting from such a request,

(g) types of communities that may need additional support in order to form community participation bodies, make participation requests and participate in outcome improvement processes.