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This includes the Working Time Regulations 1998, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, and the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE).
Following the new Pri...
The need to change detailed provisions from time to time would place impossible burdens on Parliament if the changes always required the introduction of new legislation. The argument is not whether delegation is ever justified but what criteria can be used in determining whether particular proposals for delegation are acceptable.”
Committee reports
Date published:
27 September 2022
The exceptions in the 2002 Act are replaced with four revised exceptions which would allow a person to hunt wild mammals with dogs, so long as the hunting is for the specified purposes and if certain conditions are met.
The four new exceptions could be used for the following purposes—
the management of wild mammals above ground (section 3);
the management o...
Proposed reforms in the Bill as introduced included:
changes to hate crime characteristics (e.g. amending the definition of transgender identity and adding age)
replacing the existing statutory hate crime aggravations with ones covering the amended/expanded list of hate crime characteristics in the Bill
setting out new offences relating to stirring up hatre...
The Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007 makes a number of provisions in relation to the nutritional value of foods in schools and the promotion of school lunches. New regulations on food in schools were made in 2020.
The Committee notes that the Supply Chain Development Programme appears to focus on identifying new development opportunities and does not specifically mention any activity to increase the resilience of existing supply chains.
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Responding to questions on the prevalence and availability of low noise fireworks in the market in Scotland, Fraser Stevenson of the BFA said—
“Low-noise fireworks are widely available at the moment to consumers—that is a matter of choice. They are not a new development; they have been available for several years.
If there is a delay, then there will be a period in which certain members can no longer accrue pension in the legacy scheme, but scheme rules would prevent those members from joining the new scheme.
A copy of the correspondence can be found in the Annex.