Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009

54 Publicity of matters

(1) Where, under this Part, a person (“the publisher”) is required to publicise any matter, the publisher—

(a) must do so by means of a notice published in the appropriate newspapers, and

(b) may further publicise the matter by such electronic or other means as the publisher considers appropriate.

(2) In subsection (1), the appropriate newspapers are—

(a) in relation to a local flood risk management plan, such newspapers circulating in the local plan district, or any part of the district, as the publisher considers appropriate,

(b) in relation to any other matter—

(i) at least one newspaper circulating throughout Scotland, and

(ii) such local newspapers circulating in any part of the flood risk management district to which the matter relates as the publisher considers appropriate.