Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 Explanatory Notes

Islands (Scotland) Act 2018

2018 asp 12

Overview of the Act

PART 2 – NATIONAL ISLANDS PLAN

Reporting on and review of plan

Section 6 – Review of plan

14. This section provides for the timescales and review of the plan once it has been prepared and published under section 4. Subsection (1) requires the Scottish Ministers to review the plan before the end of five years from when the plan was last published. Ministers may also review the plan at another time should they see fit.

15. Subsection (2) allows Ministers to revise the plan as they consider appropriate following a review. Subsection (3) applies the same duties set out in section 4 for the original plan – of consultation, of laying before the Scottish Parliament, and of publication – to any review of the plan.