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The aim, therefore, is to align the right to withdraw from religious observance and education with the UNCRC as a matter of international law. This means that the new provisions cannot be challenged under the UNCRC Act.
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Committee and Rural Affairs and Islands (“RAI”) CommitteeiiiRural Affairs and Islands ("RAI") Committee. Written submission., New Zealand’s Regulations Review CommitteeiiNew Zealand’s Regulations Review Committee.
This is how the casual vacancy system for the lists works, and I see no reason why it shouldn't continue to work that way if an MSP is recalled. The voters will have a new MSP, who, given what happened to their predecessor, is likely to take their role seriously, which seems to me to be the whole point of the exercise.
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.
The review considered these issues in more depth, as well as other issues, such as the creation of new small landholdings - very few small landholdings have been created since the 1930s.
An amendment lodged by Jim Fairlie MSP was agreed, extending the maximum length of a section 16AA licence to 5 years (now found in section 7 of the Bill as amended, which inserts a new section 16AA(5)(b) into the 1981 Act).
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22 February 2024
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The Explanatory Notes state that "Subsection (8) places a new duty on local authorities to provide the support that a carer needs to enable the carer to take sufficient breaks from providing care for the cared-for person.