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Our convener, Gillian Martin, wrote to the cabinet secretary about that and about concerns about parity between the maximum fines for offences related to the register, and comparable offences and breaches in relation to other registers, which are, as you will know, set at £10,000.
Can you think of any examples of someone who has been damaged not having to meet that threshold? Is there anything comparable that you can think of or any other cases of people being treated differently?
Last year, we helped more than 21,000 people who were facing homelessness or experiencing bad housing, and we had 800,000 unique visits to our online get advice service, so we know that there are high levels of housing need.
An affected child has to seek a declarator that the will should be set aside, and that procedure takes much longer than six months. In such exceptional circumstances, the six-month period could be extended but, again, it would be on cause shown.
We suggest, therefore, that abbreviations be removed, with the exception of AIB, which is well known to mean the Accountant in Bankruptcy, and perhaps PTD, which stands for protected trust deed.
Finding a modified way of dealing with that issue would be an improvement.Other factors to bear in mind include the change in scene in Scotland, with the attempt to put a one-stop shop for services into Marine Scotland and the fact that we now have a two-tier system on marine environmental matters. I believe that we are the exception in Europe. A more strea...