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Section 5 provides that the code may be revised. Ministers must consult such persons as they consider appropriate before making the code for the first time, and again before revising it, and the code and any revised code must be publish...
The Committee considers that this would enhance the opportunity for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Code, in line with the importance of the Code as set out above, by requiring both a pre-scrutiny Parliamentary consultation phase on the proposed draft Code, and a vote to approve the final draft Code before it could be issued.
The code must be reviewed every five years and the Scottish Ministers must consult before making the first code and before reviewing and revising the code thereafter.