International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015
| Year | 2015 |
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015
2015 CHAPTER 12
An Act to make provision about the meeting by the United Kingdom of the target for official development assistance (ODA) to constitute 0.7 per cent of gross national income; to make provision for independent verification that ODA is spent efficiently and effectively; and for connected purposes.
[26th March 2015]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1 Duty to meet United Nations 0.7% target from 2015
(1) It is the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that the target for official development assistance (referred to in this Act as "ODA") to amount to 0.7% of gross national income (in this Act referred to as "the 0.7% target") is met by the United Kingdom in the year 2015 and each subsequent calendar year.
(2) Whether the 0.7% target has been met by the United Kingdom in any year is to be determined for the purposes of this Act by reference to the amounts specified for that year in an annual report (in particular, the percentage specified in accordance with paragraph 1(h) of the Schedule to the 2006 Act).
(3) In this Act-
"the 2006 Act" means the International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006;
"annual report" means an annual report under section 1 of the 2006 Act.
2 Duty to lay statement before Parliament if 0.7% target not met
(1) If an annual report laid before Parliament in the year 2016 or any subsequent calendar year shows that the 0.7% target has not been met in the report year, the Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after laying the report, lay before Parliament a statement complying with subsections (3) and (4).
(2) If an annual report laid before Parliament in the year 2015 or any subsequent calendar year shows that the 0.7% target has been met in the report year but-
(a) the report is revised under section 1(4) of the 2006 Act by a subsequent annual report, and
(b) the effect of the revision is to show that the 0.7% target was not met in the report year,
the Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after laying the subsequent...
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