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Although the PSPA provides broad powers for scheme regulations to make provision about the administration and management of the LGPS, it does not explicitly cover governance assurance, so this new power clarifies and embeds governance reviews into the LGPS framework, with core requirements in primary legislation and technical details in secondary legislatio...
It provides that the power also includes the power to make any provision described in clauses 3, 4, 7 and 8, in connection with existing product provision (that is provision in subordinate legislation made before the passing of the Bill or in assimilated direct legislation) that could be made by way of product regulations under the Bill.
Clause 10 is also a new provision and is the subject of the Scottish Government’s second SLCM.
It will be responsible for investment, day-to-day operational delivery and innovations and improvements for passengers, working with publicly-owned rail operators in Wales and Scotland"
The 2024 King’s Speech included a commitment from the new Government to introduce a Railways Bill, which would establish Great British Railways (an organisation that would a...
This is often carried out to encourage new growth for grazing animals, maintain certain types of landscapes and habitats, and reduce the risk of wildfires.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
The Committee further shares the concerns raised by the Mental Health Foundation that there is currently a lack of provision for new lone parents with mild and moderate mental health problems.
Annex
Letter to the Scottish Government, 4 May 2023
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered this Bill at its meeting on Tuesday, 2 May 2023 and agreed to write to you in relation to the following delegated powers:
Section 10(5): power to amend the purposes for which a muirburn licence may be granted
Section 18(2): power to amend the definitions of “peat” and “peatland”.
The Bill introduces a new...
The policy note acknowledges a potential difficulty with the new definition: there are currently no maps which classify peat soils based on the 40cm definition (existing maps use a 50cm threshold to classify peat soils).
The goal for learners may never be higher education but rather realising opportunities to develop new skills to be able to advance at work or to live more independently .
Committee reports
Date published:
15 February 2023
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/lcms/retained-eu-law-revocation-and-reform-bill/legislative-consent-memorandum.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/lcms/retained-eu-law-revocation-and-reform-bill/legislative-consent-memorandum.pdf</a>
The Faculty of Advocates warned that there is “an obvious danger that new...
Committee reports
Date published:
14 November 2022
The LCM notes that the Bill “will enable UK Ministers to create broad swathes of ‘new law’ to replace the provisions of the Protocol which are dis-applied” and quotes the view of Professor Catherine Barnard that these measures are “eye wateringly broad.”1Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. (2022, August 19).