Dear Stuart,
Thank you for your letter of 23 December, in which you informed me of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee’s consideration of the Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules 1999 and Sheriff Appeal Court Rules Amendment) (Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019) 2021 (SSI 2021/452).
In your letter, you expressed the Committee’s interest in whether there was any correspondence between the Scottish Government and the Lord President’s Private Office which provided advance notice that the relevant provisions of the 2019 Act were coming into force on 17 December 2021.