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Last year, 58,500 visitors took advantage of the Free Weekend to visit the 74 paying sites throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh, Stirling and Urquhart Castles.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2002
The upper limits have generally been increased to 20 sets for first visits and 60 for subsequent visits, subject to the return of used equipment, at follow-up visits, for safe disposal by exchange staff.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 October 2001
Section 19(3) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 (as amended) provides that the members of visiting committees for young offenders institutions shall be appointed by the Scottish ministers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 October 1999
This may include relevant literature being sent to the farmer free of charge or a recommendation to have an individual on-farm visit, although farmers are expected to pay for the visits.
The process has been very pressured and has run from some point late on a Monday afternoon to—at the very latest—a Wednesday morning. That has resulted in the suggestion that we should establish a longer period of notice.The paper recommends that we accept the Presiding Officer's suggestion of a three-day period of notice.
Secondly, there does not seem to be any power to amend the sum of £5,000 in new section 20E(1)(b) of the 1990 act, yet section 38(1A)(b) provides for a specific power to amend the same sum specified in new section 55(1)(bc) of the 1980 act.