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Section 16A – Offences relating to the use etc. of injurious articles or substances: fixed penalty notices
Power conferred on: The Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: choice of negative or affirmative
Revised or new power: new
Provision
New section 16A modifies section 140 of the 1990 Act to give the Scottish Ministers the power to enable the use of a fixed penalty notice procedure in relation to the offences created in regulations prohibiting or restricting the use, storage or supply of environmentally harmful items.
Removal of three-month timescale to establish the Compensation Arm’s Length Body.
The new Government amendments would remove the timescales included in Clause 40 (1) of the Victims and Prisoners Bill of a commitment to set up the new body promptly once the Act was passed.
Amazon's response to the report was that the landfill site also has a recycling centre and that none of their items go to landfill in the UK.2ITV News. (2021, June 22). Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds.
This instrument further amends the principal International Travel Regulations in SSI 2021/322 and inserts a new Part 1A (Eligible vaccinated arrivals) which substitutes regulation 3 with interpretation provisions for Part 1A and inserts new regulations 3A – 3H.
The Scottish Government also committed to set out its "new overarching approach to environmental protection" through an Environment Strategy - which will be "a living and evolving strategy, able to adapt to new evidence as it emerges and refocus work to take advantage of new opportunities or address new challenges".