{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2009/12",
  "legislation_title": "Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Reports on proposals and policies where emissions reduction targets not met",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Scottish Ministers lay a report under section 33 which states that an emissions reduction target has not been met.\n(2) Within the period of 6 months beginning with the day that the report referred to in subsection (1) is laid before the Parliament, the Scottish Ministers must lay a report before the Scottish Parliament setting out proposals and policies to compensate in future years for the excess emissions.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 36(1) substituted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), ss. 20(2), 32(2); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(2) substituted (23.11.2024) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 15), ss. 10(2), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 36 title substituted (23.11.2024) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 15), ss. 2(19), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 31.10.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/341, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/12/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:34.064396+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}