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(1)The Welsh Ministers must make a scheme (“the sustainable development scheme”) setting out how they propose, in the exercise of their functions, to promote sustainable development.
(2)The Welsh Ministers—
(a)must keep the sustainable development scheme under review, and
(b)may from time to time remake or revise it.
(3)Before making, remaking or revising the sustainable development scheme, the Welsh Ministers must consult such persons as they consider appropriate.
(4)The Welsh Ministers must publish the sustainable development scheme when they make it and whenever they remake it; and, if they revise the scheme without remaking it, they must publish either the revisions or the scheme as revised (as they consider appropriate).
(5)If the Welsh Ministers publish a scheme or revisions under subsection (4) they must lay a copy of the scheme or revisions before the Assembly.
(6)After each financial year the Welsh Ministers must—
(a)publish a report of how the proposals set out in the sustainable development scheme were implemented in that financial year, and
(b)lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.
(7)In the year following that in which an ordinary general election is (or, apart from section 5(5), would be) held, the Welsh Ministers must—
(a)publish a report containing an assessment of how effective their proposals (as set out in the scheme and implemented) have been in promoting sustainable development, and
(b)lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.
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