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Amendment 20 is grouped with amendments 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38. I call Bill Aitken to speak to and move amendment 20 and to speak to all the amendments in the group.
The majority of people chose to set the limit at 18, but many chose to set it at 16 and some chose to set it at 26. Several voluntary organisations also thought that the under-12s are ignored more often, and had an interest in suggesting that the commissioner should address that.
These technical amendments clarify what is meant by the term "provisional release date" in paragraphs 26 to 31 in part 3 of the schedule.I move amendment 49.
It is already an offence for a person to obstruct such officers while they are enforcing existing legislation.Section 26 of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868 provides powers to enter and remain on land to prevent or detect offences against salmon fisheries legislation.
That session was a round table and informal and was therefore in private, so it was without an Official Report, for example. We pushed that session too far along the spectrum.
I sense that members would like to draft a letter articulating our concerns and possibly include a copy the Official Report of this meeting. Is that sufficient for members at this stage?
Suffice it to say that the current system—in which victims' families can be left in a horrendous limbo in which they feel that justice has failed them, that they have been given few answers to questions about why their loved one died and that there has been no official recognition of the death—is completely inadequate.
That affects mainly the NHS, but also other sectors.The Executive says:"Scottish Ministers and officials remain in regular contact on this issue with the UK Government and Whitehall Departments"and"There are no peculiarly Scottish dimensions on this reserved issue."