Part 2General duties
3Sustainable development and protection and enhancement of the health of the Scottish marine area
In exercising any function that affects the Scottish marine area under this Act—
(a)
the Scottish Ministers, and
(b)
public authorities
must act in the way best calculated to further the achievement of sustainable development, including the protection and, where appropriate, enhancement of the health of that area, so far as is consistent with the proper exercise of that function.