(1)The Scottish Ministers must gather and publish in such manner as they consider appropriate information on forest holdings in Scotland that do not fall within forested land as defined in section 12.
(2)The information to be gathered must include in particular information on the—
(a)area, and
(b)proprietorship,
of such forest holdings.
(3)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision about the information to be gathered for the purposes of this section.
(4)Regulations under subsection (3) may in particular make provision about whether the information is to be in the form of a statistically representative sample of, or comprehensive information on, all such forest holdings.
(5)Information under this section must be—
(a)first published no later than 3 years after the day of Royal Assent,
(b)subsequently published no later than 5 years after the date of the previous such publication.