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Whilst traditionally the 'rights' of landowners have been most prominent, the climate and biodiversity context has created a new focus on 'responsibility' to deliver public goods and services from land (such as carbon sequestration, healthy ecosystems and to ensure water and soil quality).
Instead, the Scottish Government's approach is to consider any new technologies on an individual basis, regardless of whether they include an AI element (Scottish Government personal correspondence).
Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/post-office-offences-bill-to-be-extended-to-northern-ireland
A House of Commons Library briefing on the UK Bill as introduced (and so not reflecting the extension to Northern Ireland) was published on 18 March 2024.3UK Parliament. (2024, March 18).
One of the main recommendations of the interim report was the formulation of a draft UK bill promoting a new general framework which could be adopted for all elections and referendums.
Retrieved from https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/contents [accessed 22 February 2024]
Section 24 of the Bill amends section 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 to give the Presiding Officer a power to set a new date for a by-election within three months of the original date, provided it is not within 6 months of the next ordinary general election.3The Sco...
The Minister said a number of examples of local transport authorities from across Scotland have indicated their interest in exploring new service models. A Transport Scotland official noted that they had received a number of representations by local authorities to use franchising powers under the 2019 Act, and undertook to provide a follow-up list of bidder...
This included a request that consideration be given to how a proxy vote could be exercised in a transparent but less time-consuming manner when the functionality of any new voting system is being assessed.
Local Government – council tax and the Verity House Agreement
Greig Liddell, Senior Researcher, Local Government
SPICe’s Key Issues briefing published at the start of Session 6 discussed developments in the relationship between the Scottish Government and local government. Since then, the first part of a “New Deal” between the two tiers of government has b...
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.