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Supplemental provision
The Scottish Government takes the view that the new proposed provisions are supplemental to the existing provisions of the section.
When the Scottish Government published the second National Plan in November 2023, it committed to establishing a BSL National Plan IAG with representatives of the BSL community to enable it to be “at the heart of our decision-making process in this area… to ensure that the views of the community are properly represented” and to “help us deliver the actions within this plan and make the cross-cutting connections required to progress BSL equality in Scotland”13Scottish Government. (2023). New...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
The Deputy First Minister criticised the UK Government's decision to rule out the possibility of repealing the Act, and argued that this was "a key test for the new UK Government to show whether it intends to continue to ignore the democratic voice of the Scottish Parliament".
Under the amendment, by the end of October 2023, the Scottish Government would have to produce a list which of these rights they intend to revoke, and the Scottish Parliament would have the power to remove an item from that list, similar to new process for taking items off schedule 1.