61Duty of Scottish Ministers to promote renewable heat
(1)The Scottish Ministers must prepare and publish a plan for the promotion of the use of heat produced from renewable sources.
(2)The plan must, in particular—
(a)set—
(i)targets for the percentage of heat to be produced from renewable sources; and
(ii)in relation to each target, the date by which it should be met; and
(b)describe how those targets are to be reported on.
(3)The plan prepared under subsection (1) must be published no later than 12 months after the day on which this section comes into force.
(4)The Scottish Ministers—
(a)may, from time to time; and
(b)must, before the end of the period mentioned in subsection (5),
review the plan prepared and published under this section.
(5)The period referred to in subsection (4)(b) is the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which—
(a)the plan is first published; or
(b)the plan was last reviewed under subsection (4).
(6)Where, following a review under subsection (4), the Scottish Ministers vary the plan, they must, as soon as reasonably practicable after so doing, publish the plan as so varied.
(7)In this section, “renewable sources” has the same meaning as in section 60(9).