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Section 15 – Review of, and recommendations about, practices and policies of the police
Provision in the Bill
Section 15 would extend the powers of the PIRC to enable them to review practices and policies of Police Scotland and the SPA generally, and not just in relation to a particular incident or audit function, if deemed to be in the public interest. It also makes new provision for the SPA and the Chief Constable to respond to recommendations made to them by the PIRC and the processes around this.
It aims to do this by:
requiring the Scottish Ministers to make a new code of practice that should be followed by any person who is considering acquiring a dog to keep as a pet, and by any person who is considering selling or giving away a dog to someone else, and
enabling the Scottish Ministers to make regulations which would prohibit the sale of puppies f...
These amendments—
extend the scope of the AHDB to work with non-levy paying agricultural and related sectors across the UK;
change the levy approval process whereby the obligation for the AHDB to seek Ministerial approval of the levy rate annually is replaced with the obligation to seek Ministerial approval for new levy rates only;
provide for the ability t...
For example:
current rules on jury size and/or majority verdicts - the arrangements work well and so no need to change them
reduction to 12 person juries - would bring Scotland into line with other countries and may encourage greater participation of all jurors in the decision making of a jury
new qualified majority verdict arrangements - would provide addi...
The Committee considered and reported on 14 LCM's :
Online Safety Bill
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Procurement Bill
UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
Public Order Bill
UK Infrastructure Bank Bill (Supplementary)
Retained EU La...
The repealed provisions continue to apply for the purpose of those proceedings, however they are modified so that the defence of reasonable excuse, which is provided for in relation to the new offence under section 36 of the 2022 Act, also applies to those cases.
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.