{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2009/12",
  "legislation_title": "Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Progress towards targets",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must in each year... request the relevant body to prepare a report setting out that body's views on—\n(a) progress towards achievement of future emissions reduction targets,—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) whether the future emissions reduction targets are likely to be achieved;\n(c) any further effort which may be necessary to achieve the future emissions reduction targets.\n(d) any draft climate change plan laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 35A(1)(a) within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the making of the request.\n(2) No later than the end of the second year following each target year, the Scottish Ministers must request the relevant body to prepare a report setting out that body's views on—\n(a) whether the emissions reduction target for the target year was met;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) the ways in which those targets were or were not met;\n(d) the action taken by the Scottish Ministers to reduce net Scottish emissions of greenhouse gases during the period of the Scottish carbon budget for the period ending with the target year.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers must lay a response to the relevant body's report under this section before the Scottish Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after they receive that body's report.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1) repealed (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(a)(i); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1)(a) inserted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(a)(ii); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 9(1)(a)(i)-(iii) repealed (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(a)(iii); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1)(b) substituted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(a)(iv); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1)(c) substituted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(a)(v); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 9(1)(d) inserted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), ss. 24(2), 32(2); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2) substituted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(b)(i); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2)(a) substituted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 9(2)(b) repealed (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(b)(iii); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2)(d) inserted (23.3.2020) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 15), s. 32(2), sch. para. 3(b)(iv); S.S.I. 2020/66, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2)(d) substituted (23.11.2024) by Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 15), ss. 2(10), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 31.10.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/341, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/12/section/9",
    "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."
}