{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ethical-standards-in-public-life-etc-scotland-act-2000/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ethical-standards-in-public-life-etc-scotland-act-2000/section-14.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": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "... Commissioner's reports",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 10 above, it is for the Commissioner to decide whether to report to the Commission on the outcome of any investigation.\n(2) No report concluding that a councillor or a member of a devolved public body has contravened the councillors’ or, as the case may be, the members’ code shall be submitted to the Commission unless the councillor or member has been given a copy of the proposed report and an opportunity to make representations on the alleged contravention and on the proposed report.\n(3) At the same time as the Commissioner gives a copy of a proposed report to a councillor or a member of a devolved public body for the purposes of subsection (2) above, the Commissioner shall give a further copy to the council or, as the case may be, the devolved public body.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 14(1)(3) substituted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), ss. 2(5), 31(5), sch. 1 para. 2 (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 14(3) substituted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), ss. 2(5), 31(5), sch. 1 para. 4 (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 14 title substituted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), ss. 2(5), 31(5), sch. 1 para. 9 (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 14 heading omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, sch. 2 para. 5 (with sch. 4 para. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/7/section/14",
    "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."
}