Care homes 40 Visits to or by care home residents (1) The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 is modified as follows. (2) In section 78 (regulations: care services), after subsection (2) insert— “(2A) The Scottish Ministers must exercise the power under subsection (2) to require providers of care home services to comply with any direction (“visiting direction”) issued by the Ministers about either or both of— (a) visits to residents of accommodation provided by a care home service, (b) visits by residents of accommodation provided by a care home service. (2B) The Scottish Ministers— (a) must, before issuing a visiting direction, consult Public Health Scotland and any other person the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate, (b) may vary or revoke a visiting direction.”. draft 2024-06-21 31 National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care Procurement 41 Reserving right to participate in procurement by type of organisation (1) The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/446) are modified as follows. (2) After regulation 76 insert— “Reserved contracts for certain services 76A —(1) Contracting authorities may reserve to qualifying organisations the right to participate in procedures for the award of reservable contracts. (2) Where a contracting authority exercises the power of reservation conferred by paragraph (1), the call for competition must make reference to this regulation. (3) The power of reservation conferred by paragraph (1) is without prejudice to the power conferred by regulation 21. (4) A reservable contract is a contract that— (a) is to be awarded in accordance with this Section, (b) has a maximum duration of 5 years or less, (c) is for the provision of a service, or more than one service, to or on behalf of the National Care Service (as defined by section 35 of the National Care Service (Scotland) Act 2023), and (d) is exclusively for a service, or more than one service, covered by one of the following CPV codes...