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Martin warned that if the UK National Screening Committee recommended a screening programme was introduced it would be very challenging to put this into practice.
Martin warned that if the UK National Screening Committee recommended a screening programme was introduced it would be very challenging to put this into practice.
The Bill, which is based on work by the Scottish Law Commission (SLC), is focused on the common law rules around tacit relocation, where a commercial lease automatically continues after its expiry date because neither landlord nor tenant has taken steps to end it.
The Committee heard that the current law on giving notice is also very complex and unclear, with a notice period of 40 days, which the SLC says does not give tenants sufficient time to move to new premises or for landlords to find new tenants.
The Promoter, however, noted that the Bill would not alter the tenants' position:
At the minute, if we chose, we would be free to sell the building subject to leases to anyone we wished, and all that would happen would be that the tenants’ landlord would change.
As previously noted, if a ban was put in place it remains unlikely that any travelling circus that uses wild animals would visit Scotland as such visits have been rare in recent years.