4 Regulations as respects specifying existing facilities in quality partnership schemesS
(1)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision as respects the specifying in quality partnership schemes of facilities which are provided before such schemes are proposed (in this section any such facilities being referred to as “existing facilities”).
(2)The regulations may in particular—
(a)provide that particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may not be specified;
(b)provide that existing facilities may not be specified if they were provided before such date as may be prescribed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations;
(c)provide that particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may be specified only in circumstances prescribed by the regulations;
(d)provide that, in circumstances prescribed by the regulations, particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may be specified only with the consent of such person as may be prescribed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations; and
(e)make provision modifying any of sections 5 to 7 as those sections apply in relation to schemes, or proposed schemes, which specify existing facilities.