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The Bill covers four main areas:
Ticket touting
Street trading
Advertising
Enforcement
Four new offences are being introduced, largely modelled on similar offences which were introduced during the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2019
As part of the process by which the UK leaves the EU, consideration must be given as to whether current UK law needs to be amended to the UK's new status as a non-EU member. For example, there are currently many references in regulations to EU bodies and the EU itself that will no longer be applicable after the UK has left the EU.
Improvements on site would be prioritised, but in circumstances where they are not possible, the Government proposes to charge developers a levy to pay for improvement elsewhere via a central fund. A new 'biodiversity unit' metric would be developed to apply values to habitats, to enable biodiversity net gain to be demonstrated, alongside a 'spatial hierarc...
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 ( c.22) amends Part 5 of the 2002 Act by inserting a new Chapter 3A ( Recovery of Listed Assets in Summary Proceedings).
In that evidence session the Committee explored a range of topics relating to this instrument, includingviiOfficial Report, Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, 19 March 2019 —
Scottish Government engagement with stakeholders
the management framework for the new licensing regime
reporting procedures
animal welfare issues
flood management...
To achieve the policy aim of local authorities shaping the police service design and delivery in their areas, Police Scotland must ensure from the outset that the new approach enables effective engagement and influence.
Section 33 – which repeals the current restriction preventing the Parliament and Government from acting incompatibly with EU law is inconsistent with section 12 of the EUWA which sets a new limit on legislative competence to modify any retained EU law specified in regulations by UK Ministers.
It provides that cases which have commenced under the EU rules pre-Exit day should continue under those rules. Where new proceedings, either based upon jurisdiction, or applications for recognition and enforcement, are started after Exit, these will then rely on the law as amended by the SI.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 November 2018
However, the Committee draws to the attention of the lead Committee that the administrative power in section 2(6)(e)(ii), as currently drafted, is capable of being exercised to designate a new person who may determine the minimum income standard differently to the body currently designated in section 2(6)(e)(i).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2018