Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010

7 (1) Nothing in any reporting provision requires a body or officeholder to lay before the Parliament an annual or general report in respect only of a transitional part of a reporting period. S

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—

• “reporting provision” means a provision—

  (a)

  of an Act specified in section 29 (other than the Parliamentary Standards Act), and

  (b)

  having effect before the coming into force of this schedule in relation to annual or general reports,

• “transitional part of a reporting period”, in relation to a reporting provision, is any part of any reporting period for the purposes of that provision which begins on or after 2 April 2010 and ends on or before 31 March 2011.

(3) Instead, the information and other matters which would have been contained in such a report are to be included in the annual report by the body or officeholder for the reporting year beginning on 1 April 2011.