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HOW TO RESPOND

We welcome your views on any or all of the consultation points raised in this document. Please answer any/all questions as you wish.

Comments should be made by Friday 21 November 2008. Earlier responses will be very welcome. Please remember to include the Respondent Information Form to ensure that we treat your response appropriately.

We would be grateful if you could indicate clearly in your response which part of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

You can respond by filling in an online response form on the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Consultations Look for the consultation title among the list of 'current consultations'. The online form is located at the top of the contents page. The Respondent Information Form is included as part of the online response form.

Or

You can post your response to:

Telephone: 0131 244 2212
Fax: 0131 244 3297

Please remember to include a completed Respondent Information Form.

Or

You can e-mail your response to: scottishsentencingguidelines@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Please remember to attach a completed and scanned Respondent Information Form available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Consultations Look for the consultation title among the list of 'current consultations'. The Respondent Information Form is listed as part of the contents.

Acknowledgements

All responses will be acknowledged either in writing or electronically.

Additional Copies of the Consultation Document and Response Paper

Further copies of both the consultation document and the response document are available from the above address or can be downloaded from the Scottish Government's web site at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Consultations

For further information, or if you would like the consultation document in another format or language, please contact the above address. We will try to meet your needs.

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 the location of your nearest public internet access point.

The Scottish Government now has an e-mail alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly e-mail containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements but in no way replaces SE distribution lists and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SE consultation activity and to be alerted at the earliest opportunity to consultations 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 (as mentioned above) as this will ensure that we will treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential and we will handle it accordingly.

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

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, copies will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government library and on the Scottish Government web pages by 24 December 2008. Where agreement to publish has been given, we will check all responses for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the Scottish Government library on 0131-244-4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help Ministers reach a decision on the way ahead.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them the address above.

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