Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4)

Part 2 Provision as to certain public bodies etc.

The Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland

15 The Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland

(1) There is established a body to be known as the Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland (in this Act referred to as “the Advisory Council”).

(2) Schedule 3 makes provision about the constitution and status of the Advisory Council and about certain administrative and other matters with respect to it.

16 The Advisory Council’s functions

(1) The Advisory Council is to provide to the Scottish Ministers the advice mentioned in subsection (2).

(2) The advice is advice on—

(a) issues affecting the historic environment; and

(b) how the functions of the Scottish Ministers exercisable in relation to the historic environment may be exercised effectively for the benefit of the historic environment.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the historic environment means any or all of the structures and places in Scotland of historical, archaeological or architectural interest or importance.

(4) The Advisory Council is to provide advice under this section whenever—

(a) the Scottish Ministers make a request of them for it; or

(b) the Advisory Council considers it appropriate to do so.