Codes of practice 15 Proactive publication duty and publication code After section 60 (code of practice as to functions under this Act) of the FOI Act insert— 15 “60A Proactive publication duty (1) A Scottish public authority must take reasonable steps to— (a) organise and keep up to date the information, relevant to its functions, which it holds, and (b) make that information available to the public in an accessible form and 20 manner, (the “proactive publication duty”). (2) In complying with the proactive publication duty, a Scottish public authority must— (a) comply with any code of practice issued by the Commissioner under 25 section 60B, and (b) have due regard to how members of the public would be likely to access the information that the authority holds. 60B Code of practice on publication (1) The Commissioner must prepare a draft code of practice setting out how a 30 Scottish public authority is to comply with the proactive publication duty (the “publication code”). (2) The publication code must in particular specify— (a) information which a Scottish public authority must publish in the public interest, 35 (b) how that information should be made available and searchable, and (c) how long that information should be available for. 6 Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill (3) The Commissioner may not issue the publication code unless— (a) the Commissioner has consulted— (i) the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, (ii) any Scottish public authority listed in schedule 1 or such persons 5 as appear to the Commissioner to represent those authorities, (iii) any person designated by means of an order under section 5, (iv) the Scottish Ministers, and (v) such other persons as appear to the Commissioner to be relevant, and 10 (b) a draft of the publication code has been laid before and approved by 1 resolution of the Parliament. (4) A Scottish public authority must comply with the publication code. (5) The Commissioner must lay...