Section 15: Report on operation of Act
58.This section requires Public Health Scotland(26) to produce (for a limited time following the Act’s enactment) reports on the operation of the Act. Each report is to relate to a reporting period: the first reporting period runs from the day on which section 1 comes into force until 31 March in the following year(27), the second reporting period runs from 1 April in that following year until 31 March in the year after that, and so on until a total of 10 reports have been produced. Each report is to be prepared as soon as reasonably practicable after the expiry of the relevant reporting period, with the report then being laid before the Scottish Parliament and published no later than 31 May each year.
A special health board, established on 1 April 2020 by the Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336)
Under the Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 Commencement Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/24), all of the provisions of the Act (other than sections 17 to 21, which have already come into force by virtue of section 20) will come into force on 1 April 2022. The first reporting period under section 15 will therefore be 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.
