35.Section 10 amends the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 to give the Scottish Ministers a power to make regulations setting the timescale within which a local authority must prepare a young carer statement. Section 12 of the Carers Act defines what a young carer statement is and imposes a duty on local authorities to offer them to persons they identify as young carers. The expression “young carer” is defined by section 2 of the Carers Act.
36.Regulations made under the new power to set timescales that section 10 will amend into the Carers Act will be subject to the negative procedure (as defined by section 28 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010) as a result of section 42(3) of the Carers Act.
37.Subsections (3) and (4) of section 10 make adjustments in consequence of the new power:
	Subsection (3) provides for the repeal of section 13 of the Carers Act. It contained a power for the Scottish Ministers to make regulations setting a timescale for the preparation of young carer support statement in cases where the cared-for person was terminally ill. As the new power that section 10(2) of the Act inserts will allow regulations to be made setting timescales for all cases, the more limited version of the power in section 13 is redundant.
	Section 42(2) of the Carers Act contained a cross-reference to section 13 of that Act. Subsection (4) provides for its repeal.
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