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New section creating powers to introduce Fixed Penalty Notices for supplying banned environmentally harmful items (section 16A)
An amendment proposed by the Scottish Government (amendment 169) was agreed to which introduces a new section 16A to the Bill.
Upon qualification, Donaldson praised the fact that new teachers seemed to adopt a reflective, enquiring approach to their work and were often reported as making considerable impact in schools.
Nevertheless, the Government accepted that there may be some ambiguity as a result of the drafting of the instrument – in particular, in new paragraph 2(1)(ba) of schedule 1 of the 2015 Regulations, read with new paragraph 2(1)(b) of that schedule, as inserted by regulation 2(2)(a) of the instrument.
According to the explanatory memorandum, this is necessary to ensure the provisions come into force as early as possible into the start of the new financial year to give horticulture and potato sector levy payers certainty that their obligations to make levy returns during the new financial year have been removed.