Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007

21 Annual report

(1) The Scottish Ministers are, by 1st. October in each year after the year of Royal Assent, to prepare a report on—

(a) such orders as were, in the relevant period, made (or by virtue of section 11(2)(c) not made) under section 1,

(b) such applications as were made by virtue of section 4 (whether in the relevant period or before it commenced) and remained current as at the date that period ended, and

(c) such proposals as were (whether in the relevant period or before it commenced) the subject of a notice published under section 6(3)(b) and remained current as at that date.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the report is to include—

(a) details of each order, and as the case may be of—

(i) each applicant and application, or

(ii) each proposal,

(b) where the Scottish Ministers have—

(i) dealt with an application,

(ii) made, or determined not to make, an order notice of the proposal for which was published under section 6(3)(b), or

(iii) made a direction under section 13(1)(c) or (7)(c),

a summary of the reasons which they had for doing as they did,

(c) in relation to each order made during the relevant period (or which the Scottish Ministers have, during that period, determined not to make)—

(i) on an application, the length of time which elapsed between the application being made and the date on which the order (or determination) was made, or

(ii) other than on an application, the length of time which elapsed between notice of the proposal to make the order being published under section 6(3)(b) and that date.

(3) The Scottish Ministers are to lay a copy of the report before the Parliament and are to publish the report.

(4) In this section the “relevant period” means the period of 12 months which ends on 31st. July in the year in which the report is prepared (except that in the case of the report first prepared under this section, it means the period which begins on the day on which section 1 comes into force and ends on 31st. July in the year in which the report is prepared).