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The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
On 16 June 2025, Members of the Committee visited another organisation that sits under the Committee's remit - the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh .
It is not expected that any such circuses will be appearing in Scotland when the substantive provisions are brought into force, as none have visited for several yearsiThe Financial Memorandum for the Bill states that according to respondents to the 2014 Scottish Government consultation on travelling circuses, only 2 travelling circuses with wild animals had visited Scotland in the last 5 years, and none in the last 12 months..
Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (legislation.gov.uk) 26 These were added by virtue of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985.
Given some of the evidence that the committee saw during our visit on Monday, is there anything in the bill that would stop people from accessing funds to buy shared equipment?
The First Minister met Callum earlier this year to hear about his petition and how he had walked the John Muir Way in order to raise money to buy reusable water bottles for his school.
New subsection (3B) would permit regulations to exempt all SCIOs, or SCIOs of a particular type, from any of the requirements imposed by virtue of the new subsection (3A).