51Information and annual report
(1)The Commission must provide the Scottish Ministers with information relating to the exercise of the Commission’s functions as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.
(2)The Commission must prepare a report on its activities during the whole of each financial year as soon as practicable after the end of the period to which the report relates.
(3)A report prepared under subsection (2) above—
(a)must include a statement of accounts, prepared in accordance with paragraph 33 of schedule 2 to this Act, for the period to which the report relates; and
(b)may include a statistical analysis of the performance by judicial officers of their functions and the undertaking by officers of activities during the period to which the report relates or any other period specified by the Commission in the report.
(4)The Commission may, in preparing the report under subsection (2) above, require a judicial officer to provide any information it considers necessary or proper for the purposes of preparing the report.
(5)The Commission must—
(a)send a copy of each report prepared under subsection (2) above to the Scottish Ministers; and
(b)publish the report.
(6)The Scottish Ministers must lay a copy of a report sent to them under subsection (5)(a) above before the Scottish Parliament.