P ART 3 G ENERAL 16 Annual report 15 (1) At the end of each financial year, the Scottish Ministers must— (a) lay before the Scottish Parliament, and (b) make publicly available by such means as they consider appropriate, a report on the progress made by the National Transitions Strategy, and by the transitions plans, in improving transitions to adulthood for children and young people with a 20 disability in that year. (2) The report is to contain— (a) an assessment of the extent to which the aims, objectives and outcomes of the National Transitions Strategy have been met in that year, a statement, where the aims and objectives, and outcomes, of the National (b) Transitions Strategy were not met in that year, of how the Scottish Ministers 25 intend to ensure that these aims, objectives and outcomes will be met, (c) an assessment of how the National Transitions Strategy has affected the circumstances of children and young people with a disability, including improving their equality of opportunities, 30 (d) details of any additional initiatives which the Scottish Ministers will put in place, or actions they will take, to support the aims, objectives and outcomes of the National Transitions Strategy, (e) information about the numbers of transitions plans put in place by each local authority for children and young people with a disability in that year, 35 (f) a summary of the actions taken by each local authority to increase awareness of children and young people with a disability, transitions plans for (g) details of the action that each local authority took in fulfilment of its duties under this Act, 9 Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions to Adulthood) (Scotland) Bill Part 3—General (h) details of the initiatives which Health Boards, Integration Joint Boards and other bodies and persons have put in place, or actions they have taken, to support the aims and objectives of the National Transitions Strategy, and (i) such other information as the Scottish Ministers consider relevant to the National 5 Transitions Strategy, and to improving transitions for children and young people with a disability. (3) The first report under this section is to include a plan setting out the Scottish Ministers’ intentions to collect and publish data for the purpose of monitoring equality of opportunity where existing data sources are not sufficient for the preparation of the report. 10 17 Ancillary provision (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, or transitory provision they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to, this Act. (2) Regulations under this section may— 15 (a) make different provision for different purposes, (b) modify any enactment (including this Act). (3) Regulations under this section that add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure. (4) Otherwise, regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure. 20 18 Subordinate legislation (1) Regulations under sections 4(2)(d), 7(4), 8, 13 and 15(1) are subject to the affirmative procedure. (2) All other regulations under this Act are subject to the negative procedure. 19 Interpretation 25 In this Act— “child” means a person under 18 years of age, “disability” has the meaning given by Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010, “legally appointed guardian” means a person or office holder appointed under a guardianship order granted by the sheriff under section 58 of the Adults with 30 Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, “Health Board” means a board constituted by an order under section 2(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, “Integration Joint Board” has the meaning given by section 1(4)(a) of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, 35 “young person” means a person who has attained the age of 18 and is under the age of 26...