What statutory instruments it envisages will be necessary under paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 2 to the draft Referendum (Scotland) Bill.

The draft bill illustratesthe form that legislation could take to provide for a referendum for the questionposed. The government has not considered the detailed statutory instruments thatmight be made under the powers in the bill in the event of it passing into law.However, at a minimum a referendum would require provisions on the conduct of elections,form of ballot papers, and information to be returned to Scottish ministers similarto the provisions for the 1997 devolution referendum contained in Schedule 3 tothe Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Act 1997 (c. 61).