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The Committee then recommended that Temporary Rule 4 be extended until a decision had been taken to amend Rule 6.8 or to the date of dissolution, whichever is the earliest.
The only way of extending the measures beyond that date would be for the Scottish Parliament to pass a further piece of primary legislation, i.e. another bill separate from the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill.
The Explanatory Notes (para 40) state that the regulations could include:
the conferral of additional functions on an educational establishment relating to the provision of education or (only where an education authority or a further or higher education institution is concerned) the use of an educational establishment’s premises for the purpose of protecting public health, for example for testing or vaccination; the alteration of term dates...
Health inequalities in a future Scotland
Health inequalities were bad in Scotland before the pandemic hit, and evidence and data to date shows that COVID-19 has made them worse.
On 17 March 2020 UEFA announced that the 2020 European Championship would be delayed until 2021. The change in dates meant that changes were required to both primary and secondary legislation in Scotland, and the Scottish Government proposed two changes to the UEFA European Championship 2020 (Scotland) Act as part of the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act.
Future meetings
The rest of the dates for talks agreed under the negotiation's Terms of Reference are:
(As necessary) - Meetings of the Chief Negotiators / their teams / specialised sessions: weeks of 14 and 21 September (Brussels and London)
Round 9: week of 28 September to 2 October (Brussels)
Statements from the chief negotiators confirmed that meetings...
Purpose of the amendmentResultAmendment 86, in the name of Liam McArthur MSP, would require Scottish Ministers to conduct a review of the effect of the Act on children's participation no later than three years after the date of Royal Assent.The amendment was, by agreement, withdrawn.