The Scottish Ministers must make a code of practice in connection with the exercise by constables in relation to Scotland of the powers conferred by virtue of section 289.
Where they propose to issue a code of practice they must—
They must lay a draft of the code before the Scottish Parliament.
When they have laid a draft of the code before the Scottish Parliament they may bring it into operation by order.
They may revise the whole or any part of the code issued by them and issue the code as revised; and subsections (2) to (4) apply to such a revised code as they apply to the original code.
A failure by a constable to comply with a provision of the code does not of itself make him liable to criminal or civil proceedings.
The code is admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings and is to be taken into account by a court or tribunal in any case in which it appears to the court or tribunal to be relevant.