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18(1)The Council may not make a report on any matter relating only to Scotland until the Council—
(a)has referred the matter of the report for consideration, and report to the Council, by the Scottish Committee, and
(b)has considered the report of the Committee.
(2)Where the Council proposes to make a report on a matter that relates to Scotland but not only to Scotland, the Council must give the Scottish Committee details of the matter.
(3)The Scottish Committee may of its own motion make a report to the Council on any of the following matters so far as relating to Scotland—
(a)any matter relating to the administrative justice system,
(b)the constitution or working—
(i)of listed tribunals in general or of a particular listed tribunal, or
(ii)of statutory inquiries in general or of statutory inquiries of a particular description,
(c)any other matter—
(i)that relates to listed tribunals in general, to a particular listed tribunal, to statutory inquiries in general, to statutory inquiries of a particular description or to any particular statutory inquiry, and
(ii)that the Scottish Committee determines to be of special importance, and
(d)any matter referred to the Council under paragraph 14(1)(c) or 15(c).
(4)If—
(a)the Council does not make a report on matters dealt with in a report made by the Scottish Committee under sub-paragraph (1) or (3), or
(b)in making a report on those matters, the Council does not adopt the report made by the Scottish Committee without modification,
the Scottish Committee may submit its report to the Scottish Ministers.
(5)Where the Scottish Committee—
(a)submits a report to the Scottish Ministers under sub-paragraph (4), and
(b)considers that the report could be relevant to matters that are the responsibility of the Lord Chancellor or the Welsh Ministers,
the Council must send a copy of the report to the Lord Chancellor or (as the case may be) the Assembly.
(6)The Scottish Ministers must lay before the Scottish Parliament any report submitted to them under sub-paragraph (4).
(7)In sub-paragraph (3)(a) “the administrative justice system” has the meaning given by paragraph 13(4).
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