{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-fiscal-commission-act-2016/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-fiscal-commission-act-2016/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2016/17",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Fiscal Commission Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-fiscal-commission-act-2016",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Scottish Ministers' statement",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Scottish Ministers prepare—\n(a) a Scottish budget document for a financial year, or\n(b) a medium term financial outlook for a financial year,\nwhich has not been informed by a forecast for that financial year contained in a report prepared by the Commission under section 2(2).\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must prepare a statement explaining why they disagree with the forecast.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers must lay the statement before the Scottish Parliament on the same day as that on which (as the case may be)—\n(a) they lay before the Parliament the Scottish budget document for the financial year, or\n(b) a member of the Scottish Government publishes the medium term financial outlook for the financial year.\n(4) In this section, “medium term financial outlook” and “Scottish budget document” have the same meanings as in section 5(7).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1)(a) substituted (1.7.2018) by The Scottish Fiscal Commission (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/213), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1)(b) substituted (1.7.2018) by The Scottish Fiscal Commission (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/213), regs. 1, 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(3)(a) substituted (1.7.2018) by The Scottish Fiscal Commission (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/213), regs. 1, 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(3)(b) substituted (1.7.2018) by The Scottish Fiscal Commission (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/213), regs. 1, 2(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 7(4) inserted (1.7.2018) by The Scottish Fiscal Commission (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/213), regs. 1, 2(5)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 1.4.2017 by S.S.I. 2016/326, reg. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/17/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:29.593837+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."
}