Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to secure the provision throughout Scotland of free period products. P ART 1 G ENERAL RIGHT TO AND SUPPLY OF FREE PERIOD PRODUCTS 5 1 Right to free period products (1) Everyone in Scotland who needs to use period products has the right under this Part to obtain them free of charge. (2) For “period products”, see section 10(1). 2 The period products scheme: general 10 (1) The Scottish Ministers must make a scheme (the “period products scheme”) to set out and regulate that right and facilitate its exercise. (2) The period products scheme must oblige all or any of the following— (a) councils, (b) specified public-facing bodies, 15 (c) other specified persons, to make period products available for the purposes of this Part or to secure that they are made so available, or both. (3) It is to be made by regulations. (4) It is to be operational not later than 12 months after Royal Assent. 20 (5) Bodies or persons may be specified for the purposes of subsection (2) by reference to a class that they are in. (6) For “councils”, “specified” and “public-facing bodies”, see section 10(1) and (2); and for regulations, see section 9.