Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022

10 Requirements to produce plans

(1) Each relevant authority must publish a good food nation plan.

(2) In this Act, a “relevant authority” is—

(a) a health board,

(b) a local authority,

(c) a specified public authority.

(3) Subsection (1) must be complied with—

(a) in the case of a health board or local authority, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this section comes into force,

(b) otherwise, before the end of the period specified in relation to the authority concerned.

(4) A relevant authority’s good food nation plan must set out—

(a) the main outcomes in relation to food-related issues which the relevant authority wants to be achieved within the relevant authority’s areas of responsibility,

(b) indicators or other measures by which progress in achieving the outcomes may be assessed, and

(c) the policies which the relevant authority intends to pursue in order to secure the achievement of the outcomes.

(5) A relevant authority’s good food nation plan may include such other material in relation to food-related issues as the relevant authority considers appropriate.

(6) In determining the content of its good food nation plan, a relevant authority must have regard to the scope for food-related issues to affect outcomes in relation to, among other things—

(a) social and economic wellbeing,

(b) the environment, including in particular in relation to—

(i) climate change, and

(ii) wildlife and the natural environment,

(c) health and physical and mental wellbeing (including in particular through the provision of health and social care services),

(d) economic development,

(e) animal welfare,

(f) education,

(g) child poverty, and

(h) any other matter specified by the Scottish Ministers.