119.Section 36 requires that the Scottish Ministers must have regard to the strategy when making policies and exercising their functions, and that a relevant public authority must have regard to it in exercising its functions. Subsection (3) defines relevant public authority, consistent with the definition in section 10 of the 2005 Act (as amended by section 13 of the Act).
Commentary on Provisions Part 2: Scots Chapter 1: Support for the Scots language Section 36: Effect of Scots language strategy