7Consultation on order setting or amending target percentagesU.K.
(1)Before laying before Parliament a draft of a statutory instrument containing an order under section 5(1)(c) (order setting target percentage) or section 6 (order amending target percentage), the Secretary of State must—
(a)obtain, and take into account, the advice of the Committee on Climate Change, and
(b)take into account any representations made by the other national authorities.
(2)The Committee must, at the time it gives its advice to the Secretary of State, send a copy to the other national authorities.
(3)As soon as is reasonably practicable after giving its advice to the Secretary of State, the Committee must publish that advice in such manner as it considers appropriate.
(4)The Secretary of State may proceed to lay such a draft statutory instrument before Parliament without having received a national authority's representations if the authority does not provide them before the end of the period of three months beginning with the date the Committee's advice was sent to the authority.
(5)At the same time as laying such a draft statutory instrument before Parliament, the Secretary of State must publish a statement setting out whether and how the order takes account of any representations made by the other national authorities.
(6)If the order makes provision different from that recommended by the Committee, the Secretary of State must also publish a statement setting out the reasons for that decision.
(7)A statement under this section may be published in such manner as the Secretary of State thinks fit.