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The registers - accuracy and data protection
The Bill would create two new registers - the Register of Assignations and the Register of Statutory Pledges.
Sections 62 and 63 of the Bill would provide a court procedure, available through the local sheriff courts or the Court of Session allowing either:
the replacement of an ex officio trustee with another person nominated by the ex officio trustee; or
the severing of the connection between a particular job role and the role of trustee of the trust. A connection with a new job role can be substituted in some circumstances.
However, judge-made law has made it possible to do so on certain grounds.
Section 64 of the Bill proposes a new statutory power, for which there is no equivalent in current legislation.
Section 29 of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 provides that any pre-existing domestic law is to be read as being compatible with the TCA. New domestic law is not affected.
Keeping pace with EU law
The Scottish Government’s ‘keeping pace commitment’ relates to keeping pace with ‘new’ EU law (i.e. law that took effect since IP completion day).
The Presiding Officer and other members of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body continue to serve in post during dissolution and until the election of replacement members in a new session. This is the case unless an MSP resigns from the SPCB, ceases to be an MSP (other than by dissolution of the Parliament), or the MSP is removed from the SPCB by a res...
We have tried to get rid of that, because all that research made it clear that the effect was political—it was about the decisions that were made in the run-up to the 1980s about urban policy, new towns policy and deindustrialisation.