The Scottish Ministers must promote, facilitate and support Scots language education in schools.

The Scottish Ministers must in particular promote, facilitate and support the provision of adequate education resources in the Scots language for use in school education by teachers and pupils.

An education authority must promote, facilitate and support Scots language education in the schools under its management.

An education authority may discharge its functions relating to Scots language education through teaching and learning in the dialect of the Scots language most relevant to its area.

In this Chapter “Scots language education” means education consisting of teaching and learning in the use and understanding of the Scots language.