Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022

3 Requirement to lay proposed plan before the Parliament

(1) Before complying with the requirement to lay a national good food nation plan in section 1(1), the Scottish Ministers must—

(a) lay the proposed plan before the Scottish Parliament for a period of 60 days, of which no fewer than 30 days must be days on which the Parliament is neither dissolved nor in recess, and

(b) before finalising the plan have regard to—

(i) any representations about the proposed plan that are made to them,

(ii) any resolution relating to the proposed plan passed by the Parliament, and

(iii) any report relating to the draft plan published by any committee of the Parliament for the time being appointed by virtue of the standing orders,

during that period.

(2) The proposed plan must be laid before the Parliament under subsection (1)(a) not later than the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this section comes into force.

(3) The Scottish Ministers must, when laying the national good food nation plan before the Parliament under section 1(1), lay a statement setting out—

(a) details of any representations, resolutions or reports mentioned in subsection (1)(b), and

(b) the changes (if any) they have made to the plan in response to such representations, resolutions or reports and the reasons for those changes.