{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/11",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Annual reports etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Ombudsman must lay before the Parliament annually a general report on the exercise of the Ombudsman’s functions during the reporting year .\n(2) Such a report may include, in particular, any general recommendations which the Ombudsman may have arising from the exercise of those functions in the reporting year .\n(2A) A report under subsection (1) must be laid before the Parliament within seven months after the end of the reporting year.\n(3) The Parliamentary corporation may give the Ombudsman directions as to the form and content of a report under subsection (1); and the Ombudsman must comply with any such direction.\n(3A) The Ombudsman must arrange for the publication of each report under subsection (1).\n(4) The Ombudsman may from time to time lay before the Parliament such other reports with respect to the exercise of the Ombudsman’s functions as the Ombudsman thinks fit.\n(5) In this section, “reporting year” means the year beginning on 1 April.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) inserted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(a) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(2) substituted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(b) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 17(2A) inserted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(c) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(3) substituted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 17(3A) inserted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(e) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 17(5) inserted (1.4.2011) by Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010 (asp 11), s. 31(5), sch. 3 para. 6(f) (with s. 31(6), sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/11/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:01.368750+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."
}