The Act – Section by Section Miscellaneous Section 21 : Annual report
68.The section places the Scottish Ministers under a duty to prepare an annual report, by 1st October each year, of the operation of the order-making process. Subsection (2) provides details of some of the matters that are to be contained within the report. Under subsection (3) a copy of the report is to be laid in the Scottish Parliament as well as being published.