# Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, Section 99: Responsibility for ensuring availability of appropriate adults


The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—
(a) confer on a person the function of ensuring that people are available to provide appropriate adult support—
(i) throughout Scotland, or
(ii) in a particular part of Scotland, and
(b) make provision about how that function may or must be discharged.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/1/section/99 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016/section-99
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