Scottish Local Government Elections (Candidacy Rights of Foreign Nationals) Bill
The Bill ensures all nationals of Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain are allowed to stand as candidates in Scottish local government elections.
The UK has entered into treaties with these countries to allow their nationals to be candidates here. The Bill puts this into law. Without this Bill, nationals from these countries must have settled status or pre-settled status to stand as candidates. If this Bill is passed, it will be enough that they have any type of leave to remain in the UK.
The Bill also allows the Scottish Ministers to add to the list of countries who have this arrangement using regulations. The Scottish Ministers must (and can only) use this power to add a country to the list if that country is entering into a treaty with the UK. They also have the power to remove a country from this list if that country stops being party to a treaty.
Scottish Local Government Elections (Candidacy Rights of Foreign Nationals) Bill as introduced
The Bill was passed on 09 June 2022 and became an Act on 19 July 2022
Contents
Stage 2 - Changes to detail
MSPs can propose changes (“amendments”) to the Bill. The amendments are considered and decided on by a committee.
The Bill ended Stage 2 on 12 May 2022
Correspondence
Letter from the Minister for Parliamentary Business (131KB, pdf) posted 10 May 2022
Meeting on amendments
No amendments were submitted at Stage 2.
Bill as amended at Stage 2
There is no Bill as amended at Stage 2 as no amendments were agreed at Stage 2.