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(c) No compulsory redundancy schemes have been run in 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, or 2024-25 to date in the Scottish Government. Therefore the number of civil servants who took involuntary or compulsory redundancy in all years is nil.
This would allow time for written views to be sought on the amendments lodged by the Scottish Government and then formal proceedings to take place on that date. Under Standing Orders that would allow Stage 3 to be scheduled on Wednesday 25 March.
The Bill, as drafted, would have to come into force no later than 31 May 2021 or such earlier date as the Scottish Ministers may appoint by way of regulations.
The regulations provide details of the trading and advertising offences and, importantly, exceptions to those offences. Maps and dates of operation of the event zones are also included in the regulations.
We have seen instances where people have paid and then, at a later date, the criminals have come back and said, “We said we’d delete the data, but we didn’t—this time we will, if you pay us again.”