Part 2Advisory functions
Scottish Committee on Climate Change
25Scottish Committee on Climate Change
1
The Scottish Ministers may, by order, establish a body for the purpose of exercising the advisory functions.
2
The body established by virtue of subsection (1) is to be known as the Scottish Committee on Climate Change (the “Committee”).
3
Schedule 1 makes further provision about the Committee.
4
An order under subsection (1) may in particular provide—
a
for the conferral of functions on the Committee relating to advice on climate change;
b
in relation to the status, constitution and proceedings of the Committee as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate;
c
for the information that the Committee’s advice must contain;
d
for the factors to which the Committee is to have regard in giving that advice;
e
for the period within which the Committee must give that advice;
f
as to whom that advice is to be given;
g
for the form and manner in which that advice is to be published and laid before the Scottish Parliament.