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A legislative consent motion shall identify the relevant Bill by reference to its short title and the House of the UK Parliament in which and the date on which it was introduced.
2. A legislative consent motion shall not normally be lodged until after the publication of the lead committee’s report.
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Statutory requirement to lay the Regulations by 6 May 2023
Section 4(1) of the parent Act provides that the Scottish Ministers must lay the draft Regulations containing the Code before the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the date that section came into force. Accordingly, this should have been done by 6 May 2023.
Membership changes
The following changes to Committee membership occurred during the course of this parliamentary year—
Jenni Minto resigned from the Committee on 31 March 2023 and was replaced by Christine Grahame (18 April 2023 to date).
Mercedes Villalba resigned from the Committee on 25 April 2023 and was replaced by Rhoda Grant (25 April 2023 to date).
Such regulations may make provision, for example:
requiring an educational establishment to open, to stay open, to re-open or to open at times when it would not usually be open;
requiring the alteration of term dates, holiday dates or examination dates;
requiring measures to e...
Currently the publication of CSPS results is embargoed outwith the Civil Service, with a provisional publication date of 28 April 2022. I will share the results with the committee as soon as I am able to do so.
She said that they would always expect future governments to be reasonable, that the wording was common in other legislation and drafting had followed what a general approach would be. In a letter to the Committee dated 24 January 2020, she provided more clarification, giving a number of examples where legislation was drafted in similar terms.
To be admissible, an objection must:
be in writing;
state the objector's name and address (and any other contact details);
set out the grounds for objection (and whether these relate to the whole bill or specific provisions);
explain how the objector's interests would be adversely affected by the bill; and
be signed and dated by the objector.
The Scottish P...