Sch 6 para 4
(1) The Director General must— (a) prepare comments on each HMIC report as published by the Secretary of State; and (b) arrange for those comments to be published in such manner as the Director General considers appropriate. (1A) The comments must be published before the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the day on which the HMIC report is published by the Secretary of State. (1B) If the HMIC report includes a recommendation, the comments must include an explanation of— (a) the action the Director General has taken or proposes to take in response to the recommendation, or (b) why the Director General has not taken, or does not propose to take, any action in response. (2) The Director General must send a copy of any document published under sub-paragraph (1)(b)— (a) to the Secretary of State; and (b) if the inspection was carried out wholly or partly in Scotland, to the Scottish Ministers; and (c) if the inspection was carried out wholly or partly in Northern Ireland, to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.