The Additional Powers Request (Scotland) Regulations 2019

PART 5 Subsequent action by the Scottish Ministers

Statement of actions

28.—(1) Where the Scottish Ministers decide to give effect to an additional powers request under regulation 12(1) or 25(1)(b), the Scottish Ministers must, within the period mentioned in paragraph (3), publish a statement of actions on a website or by other electronic means.

(2) The statement of actions must set out—

(a) the actions that the Scottish Ministers propose to take in order to give effect to their decision under regulation 12(1) or 25(1)(b),

(b) where the Scottish Ministers decide to extend the additional power under regulation 12(4) or 25(2), the actions that the Scottish Ministers propose to take in order to give effect to that decision, and

(c) proposed timescales for taking those actions.

(3) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is three months beginning with the date on which—

(a) the decision notice is issued to the requesting local authority under regulation 13(1)(a), or

(b) the determination notice is issued to the requesting local authority under regulation 26(1)(a).

(4) The Scottish Ministers must give a copy of the statement of actions to the requesting local authority and to any other relevant local authority to which the Scottish Ministers have decided to extend the additional power under regulation 12(4) or 25(2).