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It therefore seems appropriate that the bill be amended to place similar specific requirements on the new bodies to be created by the bill around addressing the specific needs of those who use or wish to learn BSL.1National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS). (2024, September).
At Stage 2, most of the successful amendments to the Bill were technical or sought to improve the drafting rather than being a change in policy. Areas of new policy were:
A regulation-making power to set out when late applications would be accepted.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
This followed stakeholder calls for a new plan to be published setting out the future direction of SDS improvement, after the previous plan had expired in 2021.
Due to the pandemic, the SQA was required to develop a new approach to certification a few weeks before the first exams were due to take place in spring 2020.
On the other hand, CPAG said that consent to lapse an appeal should not be required because "It simply adds a bit more confusion and debate. [...] the protection that the new decision must be more favourable makes the process administratively simpler”iiiSocial Justice and Social Security Committee, Official Report, 7 March 2024, Col 19..
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Many welcomed the perceived rectification of a long standing enforcement gap.iWritten submissions including The City of Edinburgh Council, Met4Tech and The Law Society of Scotland. New civil penalties were thought to deter motorists from committing litter offences and to help encourage behaviour change.iWritten submissions including The UKRI CircularChem Ce...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
They said "the level of proactive and reactive work would depend on the resources available for this new duty. There is no obvious mechanism for cost recovery so this work would most likely be funded from SEPA?
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
Proposed Section 88C(5) confers regulation-making powers on Scottish Ministers to establish a charging regime for these provisions and set out further details relating to procedures for enforcement authorities to carry out their new statutory functions.iiCircular Economy (Scotland) Bill, Section 14.
This includes arguments that there should be an independent regulator and that there should be more room for innovation and new forms of business
Those who take the view that the current system provides high-quality legal services and that risks to consumers lie more in the market for unreserved legal services which are not subject to the same regulatory ob...