10.Section 2 requires the Scottish Ministers to publish the community wealth building statement, and to lay a copy of the statement before the Scottish Parliament. Subsection (2) gives the Scottish Ministers the power to make regulations setting out further detail about the format in which the statement is to be published. Such regulations will be subject to the affirmative procedure. Subsection (4) provides that both publication and laying before the Parliament must be done within 18 months of section 2 coming into force. Subsection (5) provides that, after the Scottish Ministers have published the statement and laid it before the Scottish Parliament, they must publish a report. The report must set out how the duty to consult persons about the statement, which is placed on the Scottish Ministers by section 1(5)(e), was carried out. This might mean that the report lists the persons who were consulted, and the ways in which they were invited to give their views. The report must also give details about how the opinions which were expressed during the consultation were incorporated into the statement, or if they were not incorporated.
The Act Commentary on provisions Section 2 – publication and laying of statement