Overview of the Act Duty to prepare national islands plan Section 3 – National islands plan
8.This section places a duty on the Scottish Ministers to prepare a national islands plan. This is to set out Ministers’ main objectives for improving public sector-derived outcomes for island communities – and Ministers’ strategy for how to do so.
9.Subsection (3) sets out a non-exhaustive list of the topics that the plan will contain in relation to improving outcomes for island communities. Subsection (4) requires the plan to list the public authorities that have duties under the Act. In accordance with subsection (5), in relation to the main objectives in the plan Ministers must consider and outline, in so far as possible, what would be appropriate to use for the purpose of measuring whether quantitatively or qualitatively the extent to which outcomes for island communities identified in the plan are improved.