28.Section 11 places a duty on the specified public bodies, listed in the schedule, to have due regard to the guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers under section 10(1)(b), when preparing their corporate plan, and their strategies for delivering that plan. Subsection (2) allows the Scottish Ministers to make regulations to add a body to the list in the schedule, remove a body, or change the description of a body on the list. Those regulations would be subject to the affirmative procedure.
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