(1)The Scottish Ministers may issue a call-in notice only if subsection (2) applies.
(2)This subsection applies where it appears to the Scottish Ministers that the education authority may have failed—
(a)in a significant regard to comply with the requirements imposed on it by (or under) this Act so far as they are relevant in relation to the closure proposal, or
(b)to take proper account of a material consideration relevant to its decision to implement the proposal.
(3)The education authority must provide the Scottish Ministers with such information in connection with a closure proposal as they may reasonably require of it for the purposes of their consideration of—
(a)whether to issue a call-in notice, or
(b)the matter of consent (including conditions) under section 16(2).
(4)In this Act, a “call-in notice” is one issuable by the Scottish Ministers under section 15(3).