3Next plan to follow setting of budgetsS
(1)The Scottish Ministers must lay a draft climate change plan before the Scottish Parliament before the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the day that the first regulations setting a Scottish carbon budget under section A4 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 come into force.
(2)The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 is modified as follows.
(3)In section 35(1), for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)in the case of the first plan, before the end of the period of 90 days, of which no fewer than 45 must be days on which the Parliament is not dissolved or in recess, beginning with the day on which the period described by section 35A(1)(a) ends following the laying of a draft plan in accordance with section 3(1) of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024,”.
Commencement Information
I1S. 3 in force at 23.11.2024, see s. 15