Additional duties on responsible bodies 6C Statement on exercise of functions (1) Each responsible body— 25 (a) must, as soon as reasonably practicable after guidance is first issued to the body under section 6B, (b) may, at any other time, prepare a written statement describing the plans mentioned in subsection (2). (2) The plans are the responsible body’s plans for— 30 (a) the exercise of its functions under section 1, 5 or, as the case may be, 6 (including in particular a summary of the arrangements required, by subsection (1) of whichever of those sections applies, to be established and maintained by the responsible body), (b) the provision of information under section 7. 35 (3) A statement prepared under subsection (1) must also explain— (a) the ways in which the arrangements mentioned in subsection (2)(a) comply with and section 6A, (b) how, in developing the plans and arrangements mentioned in subsection (2), the responsible body has had regard to guidance issued under section 6B (as the 5 Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill guidance is in force at the time the statement is prepared and as it relates to the body). (4) Subsection (5) applies where guidance issued to a responsible body under section 6B and in force at the time the responsible body prepares a statement under subsection (1) 5 includes guidance about the exercise of the functions conferred by this section and section 6D. (5) The statement must also explain how, in exercising the functions mentioned in subsection (4), the responsible body has had regard to that guidance (as it relates to the body). (6) A statement prepared under subsection (1) may include such other information as the 10 responsible body thinks appropriate. (7) The responsible body must publish each statement prepared under subsection (1) in such ways as the body thinks appropriate. 6D Consultation (1) Before each responsible body— preparing a statement under section 6C, 15 (a) must consult the persons mentioned in subsection (2), and (b) may consult any other body or person the body thinks appropriate, about the responsible body’s exercise of the functions conferred on it by section 1, 5 or, as the case may be, 6 and by section 7. (2) The persons referred to in subsection (1)(a) are, in the case of a responsible body with 20 functions under— (a) section 1— (i) such product users who live...