Part 2Provision as to certain public bodies etc.
The Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland
I115The Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland
1
There is established a body to be known as the Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland (in this Act referred to as “the Advisory Council”).
2
Schedule 3 makes provision about the constitution and status of the Advisory Council and about certain administrative and other matters with respect to it.
I216The Advisory Council’s functions
1
The Advisory Council is to provide to the Scottish Ministers the advice mentioned in subsection (2).
2
The advice is advice on—
a
issues affecting the historic environment; and
b
how the functions of the Scottish Ministers exercisable in relation to the historic environment may be exercised effectively for the benefit of the historic environment.
3
For the purposes of subsection (2), the historic environment means any or all of the structures and places in Scotland of historical, archaeological or architectural interest or importance.
4
The Advisory Council is to provide advice under this section whenever—
a
the Scottish Ministers make a request of them for it; or
b
the Advisory Council considers it appropriate to do so.