{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ethical-standards-in-public-life-etc-scotland-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-10A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ethical-standards-in-public-life-etc-scotland-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-10A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2000/7",
  "legislation_title": "Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ethical-standards-in-public-life-etc-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/10A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10A",
  "heading": "Strategic plans",
  "text": "(1) The Commission shall, in respect of each 4 year period, lay before the Parliament a plan (referred to in this section as a “strategic plan”) setting out how the Commission proposes to exercise the Commission's functions during the 4 year period.\n(2) A strategic plan shall, in particular, set out—\n(a) the Commission's objectives and priorities during the 4 year period;\n(b) how the Commission proposes to achieve them;\n(c) a timetable for doing so; and\n(d) estimates of the costs of doing so.\n(3) Before laying a strategic plan before the Parliament, the Commission shall provide a draft of it to and invite, and (if any are given) consider, comments on it from—\n(a) the Parliamentary corporation; and\n(b) such other persons as the Commission thinks appropriate.\n(4) The reference in sub-paragraph (3)(b) to other persons includes a committee of the Parliament.\n(5) The Commission shall lay each strategic plan before the Parliament not later than the beginning of the 4 year period to which the plan relates.\n(6) The Commission shall arrange for the publication of each strategic plan laid before the Parliament.\n(7) The Commission may, at any time during a 4 year period, review the strategic plan for the period and lay a revised strategic plan before the Parliament.\n(8) Sub-paragraphs (2) to (7) apply to a revised strategic plan as they apply to a strategic plan.\n(9) In that application, the reference in sub-paragraph (5) to the 4 year period is a reference to the period to which the revised strategic plan relates.\n(10) In this section, “4 year period” means the period of 4 years beginning on 1 April next following the coming into force of this paragraph and each subsequent period of 4 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 10A inserted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), ss. 29(2), 31(5), sch. 2 para. 13 (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/7/schedule/1/paragraph/10A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:25.618849+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."
}