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The Bill completed Stage 2 on 24 June 2025. The Bill was amended to include 6 new delegated powers and to revise 9 delegated powers, all of which are considered in this report.
It focuses on three areas of activity: meetings between UK and Scottish Government Ministers in the formal intergovernmental relations (IGR) structures, management of the UK internal market, and requests for the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament to consent to the UK Parliament passing new legislation which includes relevant devolved provision....
However, reference is made in the Explanatory Notes to an ability to respond to new, intangible, technologies, such as the use of AI, which may be integrated into physical products.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2024
These were Section 8 – the power to require registration of unlicensed litters of puppies; Section 10 – the power to make regulations to secure compliance with regulations made under section 8; and section 9 – the ancillary provision.
The amended or new delegated powers in the Bill as amended are listed below.
It also seeks to remove the requirement for a new Climate Change Plan to be laid by March 2025, replacing it with requirement for a Plan 'as soon as practicable' after the first regulations setting a Scottish carbon budget come into force.
However, the RNIB Scotland highlighted that although the Financial Memorandum gives illustrative costs for pilots (with options including a pilot of electronic poll cards aimed at making these accessible for people with sight loss and a pilot of a new tactile or audio voting aid), no pilots are currently planned1Royal National Institute of Blind People Scot...
CPAG explained that the Bill creates a provision for a new legal process in another part of the Act but the wording is the same as the redetermination process—
The review provisions mirror the redetermination provisions, and then there is provision to appeal against a review, which mirrors the appeal provisions against a determination of entitlement that ha...
Amendment 112 would extend the power of the Scottish Ministers under section 190(1) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 to regulate cross-border placements of children into Scotland which are underpinned by a non-Scottish court order which appears to them to correspond to a CSO.
Amendment 113 would provide a new power in section 33A of the Childr...
Part 4 makes a variety of other changes, including:
Changing ownership limits for a type of legal business
Making it simpler for charities and third sector organisations to provide legal services
Creating new offences in connection with people who pretend to be able to provide legal services