Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015

Annual reports

95 Annual reports

(1) A relevant authority must publish an asset transfer report for each reporting year.

(2) An asset transfer report is a report setting out, in respect of the reporting year—

(a) the number of asset transfer requests the relevant authority received,

(b) the number of such requests which the relevant authority—

(i) agreed to, and

(ii) refused,

(c) the number of such requests made to the relevant authority which resulted in—

(i) a transfer of ownership of land to a community transfer body,

(ii) a lease of land to such a body,

(iii) rights in respect of land being conferred on such a body,

(d) the number of appeals under section 85 relating to such requests made to the relevant authority that have—

(i) been allowed,

(ii) been dismissed,

(iii) resulted in any part of the decision of the authority being varied or reversed,

(e) in relation to a decision of the relevant authority reviewed under section 86 or 87, the number of such decisions that have been—

(i) confirmed,

(ii) modified,

(iii) substituted by a different decision, and

(f) any action taken by the relevant authority during the reporting year—

(i) to promote the use of asset transfer requests,

(ii) to support a community transfer body in the making of an asset transfer request.

(3) An asset transfer report is to be published under subsection (1) no later than 30 June following the end of the reporting year to which it relates.

(4) In this section, “reporting year” means a period of one year beginning on 1 April.

(5) A reference in this section to—

(a) section 85 includes a reference to that section as applied by section 88(3),

(b) section 86 includes a reference to that section as applied by subsection (2) of, and modified in such application by virtue of subsection (4) of, section 89.