Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016

16 Review of national strategy

(1) The Scottish Ministers must review the strategy published under section 15(1)—

(a) no later than 5 years after the strategy is published, and

(b) then from time to time (but no later than 5 years after the last review).

(2) Following such a review, the Scottish Ministers must either—

(a) publish a revised strategy, or

(b) publish a statement indicating that they consider that the strategy should not be revised.

(3) Subsection (2) of section 15 applies to a revised strategy as it applies to the strategy published under subsection (1) that section.

(4) In reviewing, and in revising, the strategy, the Scottish Ministers must consult—

(a) Community Justice Scotland,

(b) each of the other community justice partners,

(c) such third sector bodies involved in community justice as they consider appropriate, and

(d) such other persons as they consider appropriate.

(5) As soon as reasonably practicable after a revised strategy has been published under subsection (2)(a), the Scottish Ministers must lay a copy of it before the Scottish Parliament.

(6) Where a revised strategy is published under subsection (2)(a), this section—

(a) ceases to apply in relation to the previous strategy, and

(b) applies instead in relation to the revised strategy (as it applied in relation to the strategy published under section 15(1)).