The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005: consultation on occasional licences

Annex A

Responding to this Consultation
We are inviting responses to this consultation by Tuesday 16 July 2019

Please respond to this consultation using the Scottish Government's consultation platform, Citizen Space. You view and respond to this consultation online at https://consult.gov.scot/criminal-law/occasional-licences. You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of Tuesday 16 July 2019.

If you are unable to respond online, please complete the Respondent Information Form (see "Handling your Response" below) to:
licensing.consultation@gov.scot

or

Adam Sinclair
Licensing Team
Area GW14
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

If you have any queries contact Adam Sinclair on 0131 244 7931.

We would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided (at Annex C) or could clearly indicate in your response which questions you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at:
http://consult.scotland.gov.uk.

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Handling your response

If you respond using Citizen Space (http://consult.scotland.gov.uk/), you will be directed to the Respondent Information Form. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be published.
If you are unable to respond via C itizen Space, please complete and return the Respondent Information Formattached at Annex B included in this document. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at http://consult.scotland.gov.uk. If you use Citizen Space to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so.

Comments and complaints
If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to Adam Sinclair at the above address.

Scottish Government consultation process

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• indicate the need for policy development or review
• inform the development of a particular policy
• help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals
• be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented

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