65.In the first stage, subsection (1) requires that the report must first be laid in draft (as soon as practicable, and no later than two months after the end of the reporting period, as required by subsection (3)), and that in preparing the final report Scottish Ministers must have regard to any representations made to them about the draft during a consultation period (subsection (2) clarifies that this process only relates to the forward-looking aspects of the report, i.e. the aspect where Scottish Ministers explain how they intend to use the power under section 1(1) in the future).
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