Authorisation of cremation 17 Deaths outwith the United Kingdom: authorisation of cremation by medical reviewer (1) The Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 is amended as follows. 10 (1A) In section 14 (power to require documents), in subsection (1)(b), for “Scotland” substitute 1 “the United Kingdom”. (2) In section 18 (medical reviewers to authorise cremation or hydrolysis), in subsection (1)(a), for “Scotland” substitute “the United Kingdom”. (3) The italic heading before section 17 becomes “Deaths outwith the United Kingdom”. 15 RT 3 P A F INAL PROVISIONS 18 Ancillary provision (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for 20 the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act or any provision made under it. (2) Regulations under this section may modify any enactment (including this Act). 19 Regulation-making powers (1) Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make regulations conferred by this Act includes 25 the power to make different provision for different purposes or areas. (2) Regulations under section 18— (a) which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure, (b) otherwise, are subject to the negative procedure. 30 (3) Regulations under section 1(4) or 2(3) are subject to the negative procedure. (4) Regulations under section 1(5), 4(4) or 5(1) are subject to the affirmative procedure. (5) Regulations under section 13A(1) are subject to— (a) the affirmative procedure for the first regulations under that subsection, (b) the negative procedure for subsequent regulations under that subsection. 12 Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Final provisions 19A Regulations subject to the affirmative procedure: consultation The Scottish Ministers must consult such persons, or groups of persons, as they consider appropriate before laying a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing— (a) regulations under section 1(5), 5 (b) regulations under section 4(4), (c) regulations under section 5(1), (d) the first regulations under section 13A(1), (e) regulations under section 18 which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act. 10 20 Commencement 1 (1) This section and sections 15, 18, 19 and 21 come into force on the day after Royal Assent. (2) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint. 15 21 Short title The short title of this Act is the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Act 2026. 13 Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill Schedule 1—Specified non-surgical procedures SCHEDULE 1 (Introduced by section 1(1)(a)(ii)) S PECIFIED NON - SURGICAL PROCEDURES Ablative laser treatment 5 1 A procedure in which a laser is used to remove one or more layers of skin.