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However, the merger has to be done right. It is clear that the integration date is unachievable. The BTPF describes the merger date of April 2019 as a “cliff-edge scenario”.
The features specified in section 27(2) of the Bill are:
(a) a member may be disqualified under the process only if the member has failed to meet the minimum level of physical attendance expected, which is at least one day’s physical attendance at any proceedings over a period of 180 days ignoring any time during which
(i) the Parliament is in recess,
(ii) ...
Under section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, instruments subject to the negative procedure must be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days. The instrument breaches this requirement as it was laid on 14 December 2022 and came into force on 1 January 2023.
This rule requires that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days.
In correspondence with the Presiding Officer, the Scottish Government explained that the regulations are required to come into force urgently in order to have a suitable safeguarding sy...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
While recognising it will be a matter for the incoming Government after the election, we are strongly of the view that the Parliament should have the opportunity to consider a Budget Revision prior to the Summer recess.
We note that the next set of SFC forecasts will be delayed due to the Scottish Parliament elections in May.
Predicting future demand with certainty is challenging, and it was only when a further significant increase became apparent a few weeks before Parliamentary recess that we considered it necessary to act swiftly to make sure all the exisiting stock of equipment could be used as and when needed, and to ensure there was no interruption in the continuity of del...
None of the £3.6 billion of Covid-19-related consequentials that have come to Scotland to date has been allocated as support for further or higher education.