PART 2 The Victim Surcharge Fund

8 Duty to prepare and publish reports
1 The Scottish Ministers must prepare and publish a report on the administration of the Fund no later than—
(a) 31 July 2021, and
(b) 31 July in each subsequent year.
2 The report prepared and published under paragraph (1) must include the information contained in records kept in accordance with regulation 7 for the following periods—
(a) in relation to the report published under paragraph (1)(a), the period beginning with the first payment made from the Fund and ending on 31 March 2021, and
(b) in relation to reports published under paragraph (1)(b), the period of 12 months prior to 31 March each year.