Part 1Democracy and involvement
Chapter 2Petitions to local authorities
Petition schemes
13Requirement to acknowledge
1
A principal local authority's petition scheme must secure the following results where a petition to which section 12 applies is made to the authority—
a
the authority must send written acknowledgement of the petition to the petition organiser within the specified period;
b
the acknowledgement must give such information about what the authority has done or proposes to do in response to the petition as the authority considers appropriate.
2
In subsection (1)(a), “specified period” means the period specified for the purposes of this section in the scheme.