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Annex 3 - Scottish Government Consultation Process
Accessing consultations
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://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is. The Scottish Government now has an email alert system for consultations ( http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system (SEconsult) allows individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces Scottish Government distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Government consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest.
We would encourage you to register.
Handling your response
We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public.
Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form overleaf as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.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 are 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 (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library by 16 February 2009.
We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the Scottish Government Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.
Comments and complaints
If you have any comments or complaints about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:
Neil Ritchie, Scottish Government Rural Directorate, Room 358E, Pentland House, 47 Robb's Loan, Edinburgh, EH14 ITY.
RESPONDEE INFORMATION FORM
Please complete the details below and attach it with you response. This will help ensure we handle your response appropriately:
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