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Part 3 (sections 20-22) deals with definitions of key terms used in the Bill. 8. Part 4 (sections 23-26) is concerned with ancillary provision, regulation-making powers, commencement and the short title. 9.
Part 3 (sections 20-22) deals with definitions of key terms used in the Bill. 9. Part 4 (sections 23-26) is concerned with ancillary provision, regulation-making powers, commencement and the short title. 10.
Section 25: Commencement
Power conferred on: The Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Laid, no procedure
Provision
Section 25(2) provides that the Scottish Ministers may, by regulations, appoint days on which provisions of the Bill will come into force, other than sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 which come into force on the day after Royal Assent.
Scotland Acts Today’s Daily Record reports on the Tory party’s latest priority, which is that it wants its new Westminster leader to rip up the Scotland Acts and seize control of spending and decision making in devolved areas.
The report makes clear the scale of the potential costs required to achieve the Scottish Government’s target of around £1.7 billion per year for the next 12 years purely for capital investment in new rail services, new zero-carbon buses, new tram systems and new light rail networks.
Is there any sign that that approach might be amended? In the latest update, which I think was a month or so ago, there was no explicit reference to exclusion.
Statistics that were published on 4 November show that 41,767 care home staff were tested in the latest reporting period. That is an increase of 2,000 from the previous week.
As I have raised previously, there is a proposal to create a new general practitioner practice in the Ocean Terminal shopping centre, and that could be a quick, accessible and cost-effective way of meeting current demand and creating much-needed additional capacity, as the Minister for Public Health saw on a recent visit to the vaccination centre.