.—(1) The Council must formulate a strategy in relation to its functions and keep it under review.
- (2) The Council must incorporate in the strategy proposals as to—
- (a) how it intends to achieve any objectives contained directions of the National Assembly;
- (b) how it intends to achieve any objectives within any time limits contained in such directions.
- (3) The strategy must include proposals as to how the Council intends to develop the skills of persons in employment: but this does not affect the generality of subsection (1).
- (4) The Council—
- (a) may at any time send to the National Assembly a copy of the strategy as it subsists for the time being;
- (b) must at such times as the National Assembly indicates send to the Assembly a copy of the strategy as it subsists for the time being.
- (5) The National Assembly must approve the strategy sent to it or require the Council to make specified alterations of it; and if alterations are required the Council must make them.
- (6) In exercising its functions the Council must have regard to the strategy as approved by the National Assembly or as altered in accordance with its requirements.'—[Mr. Mr. Hanson.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second Time, and added to the Bill.