Duty to have regard to best practice standards

1 A public authority must, in providing services to the public or a section of the public in Northern Ireland, have due regard to any published best practice standards. 2 A public authority must prepare and publish a plan setting out the steps it proposes to take to comply with the duty in subsection (1) . 3 A public authority— a may revise and re-publish the plan if the authority considers it necessary or desirable to do so, and b must revise and re-publish the plan if relevant revised best practice standards are published in accordance with section 78N . 4 In preparing or revising a plan under this section, a public authority must consult the Commissioner.