It will be for Ministers to specify, in any regulations made under section 6, the date from which the bodies to which the regulations apply must comply with their new obligations. 4 Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, section 1 (1) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/37/section/1 5 The 26 colleges listed in Schedule 2 to that Act of 2005 include some that form part of the University of the Highlands and Islands but does not include Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), which counts as a university. 7 T his document relates to the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 45) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 23 April 2019 Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill Explanatory Notes Parliamentary copyright.