Regulation 7 Printing copies of instruments for the National Library of ScotlandI1

Scotland

(1)

As soon as practicable after receiving a certified copy of an instrument in accordance with section 41(1) of the Act, the Queen’s Printer must print a copy of the instrument and deliver it (at the Queen’s Printer’s own expense)—

(a)

to any address specified for the purpose of section 1(1) of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003^f1 by F1... the National Library of Scotland; or

(b)

to the National Library of Scotland, F2if no such address has been specified.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any instrument that there is no statutory requirement to lay, or lay in draft, before the Scottish Parliament unless—

(a)

when sending the certified copy to the Queen’s Printer, the responsible authority requests that a printed copy of the instrument be delivered to the National Library of Scotland; or

(b)

the Presiding Officer requests that a printed copy of the instrument be delivered to the National Library of Scotland.

(3)

In paragraph (2)(b) “Presiding Officer” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 19 of the Scotland Act 1998^f2.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 7(1)(a) omitted (28.6.2013) by virtue of The National Library of Scotland Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/169), arts. 1, 4(a)(i)
F2: Words in reg. 7(1)(b) substituted (28.6.2013) by The National Library of Scotland Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/169), arts. 1, 4(a)(ii)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 7 in force at 6.4.2011, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: 2003 c.28.
f2: 1998 c.46.