Part 5Social care and social work: scrutiny and improvement
Chapter 3Care services
Regulations
78Regulations: care services
1
Regulations may confer, in relation to care services, additional functions on SCSWIS.
2
Regulations may impose, in relation to care services, any requirements which the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate for the purposes of this Part.
3
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), regulations may make it an offence to contravene or fail to comply with—
a
any specified provision of the regulations, or
b
a condition of registration for the time being in force.
4
A person who commits an offence under the regulations is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
5
Before the Scottish Ministers make regulations containing provision as mentioned in subsection (1) or (3), they must consult such persons, or groups of persons, as they consider appropriate.