The Bill provides for rights and obligations derived from the Convention, and its first 2 optional protocols, to be given effect in Scots law in the following ways:
it places public authorities under a duty not to act incompatibly with “the UNCRC requirements” (as defined in section 1), and provides legal remedies should they fail to do so (Part 2);
it places the Scottish Ministers under a duty to produce, and periodically report against, a scheme setting out what it is doing to comply with its duty in relation to the UNCRC requirements, and places a duty on certain other public authorities to produce periodic reports on their compliance with those requirements (Part 3);
it obliges the Scottish Ministers, when bringing forward any new...