Part 2Welsh Assembly Government
“Inclusive” approach to exercise of functions
79I1Sustainable development
1
The Welsh Ministers must make a scheme (“the sustainable development scheme”) setting out how they propose, in the exercise of their functions, to promote sustainable development.
2
The Welsh Ministers—
a
must keep the sustainable development scheme under review, and
b
may from time to time remake or revise it.
3
Before making, remaking or revising the sustainable development scheme, the Welsh Ministers must consult such persons as they consider appropriate.
4
The Welsh Ministers must publish the sustainable development scheme when they make it and whenever they remake it; and, if they revise the scheme without remaking it, they must publish either the revisions or the scheme as revised (as they consider appropriate).
5
If the Welsh Ministers publish a scheme or revisions under subsection (4) they must lay a copy of the scheme or revisions before the Assembly.
6
After each financial year the Welsh Ministers must—
a
publish a report of how the proposals set out in the sustainable development scheme were implemented in that financial year, and
b
lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.
7
In the year following that in which an ordinary general election is (or, apart from section 5(5), would be) held, the Welsh Ministers must—
a
publish a report containing an assessment of how effective their proposals (as set out in the scheme and implemented) have been in promoting sustainable development, and
b
lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.