Good food nation plans of public bodies 20 7 Requirements to produce plans (1) Each relevant authority must publish a good food nation plan. (2) In this Act, a “relevant authority” is— (a) a health board, (b) a local authority, 25 (c) a specified public authority. (3) Subsection (1) must be complied with— (a) in the case of a health board or local authority, before the end of the period of months beginning with the day on which this section comes into force, 12 (b) otherwise, before the end of the period specified in relation to the authority 30 concerned. (4) A relevant authority’s good food nation plan must set out— (a) the main outcomes in relation to food-related issues which the relevant authority wants to be achieved within the relevant authority’s areas of responsibility, (b) indicators or other measures by which progress in achieving the outcomes may 35 be assessed, and (c) the policies which the relevant authority intends to pursue in order to secure the achievement of the outcomes. 6 Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (5) A relevant authority’s good food nation plan may include such other material in relation to food-related issues as the relevant authority considers appropriate. (6) In determining the content of its good food nation plan, a relevant authority must have regard to the scope for food-related issues to affect outcomes in relation to, among other 5 things— (a) social and economic wellbeing, (b) the environment, including in particular in relation to— (i) climate change, and (ii) wildlife and the natural environment, 10 (c) health and physical and mental wellbeing (including in particular through the 1 provision of health and social care services), (d) economic development, (e) animal welfare, (f) education, 15 (g) child poverty, and (h) any other matter specified by the Scottish Ministers. 7A Preparation of plans: principles In preparing a good food nation plan under section 7, a relevant authority must have regard to— 20 (a) the fact that each part of the food system and supply chain plays an important role in the provision of food, (b) the role of a sustainable food system and supply chain in contributing to mitigation of climate change, halting and reversing of loss of biodiversity and improvement in animal welfare, 25 (c) the ability of high quality, nutritious and culturally appropriate food to improve the health and physical and mental wellbeing of people, (d) the fact that adequate food is a human right (as part of the right to an adequate standard of living...