Scottish Statutory Instruments
Climate Change
Made
27th October 2016
Coming into force
28th October 2016
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(1) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 4(3) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers, when setting the annual targets, had regard to the advice they received from the relevant body(2) as to the cumulative amount of net Scottish emissions for the period 2010-2050 that is consistent with a reduction over that period of net Scottish emissions accounts which would allow the 2050 target to be met.
In accordance with section 4(4) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers, when setting the annual targets, had regard to the matters specified in that provision.
In accordance with section 5(1) and (2) of that Act, before laying a draft of this instrument, the Scottish Ministers requested advice from the relevant body.
In accordance with section 96(4) of that Act(3), a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
By virtue of section 5(7)(a) and (8) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, the “relevant body” in section 5(1) of that Act means the Committee on Climate Change established under section 32 of the Climate Change Act 2008 (c.27).
Section 96(4) has been modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).