Overview of the Act Development planning Section 4:  Housing needs of older people and disabled people: parliamentary report
25.Section 4 of the Act introduces section 3CD into the 1997 Act. This requires the Scottish Ministers to lay before the Scottish Parliament, and publish, a report on how the planning system is operating to help ensure that the housing needs of older people and disabled people are met. This must be done as soon as practicable after the end of the period of two years from the day on which section 4 of the Act comes into force, and every two years thereafter. Section 3CD(2) sets out what the report must contain information about, and subsection (3) sets out who the Scottish Ministers must consult in preparing the report.