Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019

22 Strategic management plan

(1) The Scottish Ministers must prepare a plan for the management of the Scottish Crown Estate.

(2) The plan must set out the Scottish Ministers’—

(a) objectives, priorities and policies in relation to the management of the Estate (including the acquisition of new assets), and

(b) assessment of how those objectives, priorities and policies align with the Scottish Ministers’ other objectives, priorities and policies.

(3) The plan may contain such other information about the Estate and its management as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.

(4) When preparing the plan, the Scottish Ministers must consult—

(a) each manager,

(b) such other persons as they consider appropriate.

(5) A manager must have regard to the plan when—

(a) preparing a management plan,

(b) exercising any of the manager’s other functions.

(6) The Scottish Ministers must—

(a) lay a copy of the plan before the Scottish Parliament, and

(b) publish the plan in such manner as they consider appropriate as soon as reasonably practicable after a copy of it is laid before the Parliament.

(7) In subsection (5)(a), “management plan” means—

(a) where the manager is Crown Estate Scotland, a plan prepared under article 19(1) of the Crown Estate Scotland Order,

(b) otherwise, a plan prepared under section 24(1).