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Many tenants will be unaware that the law requires them to give notice some time before the termination date of their lease in order to prevent the landlord from tying them into that lease for a further period.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2025
Committee consideration
The DPM explains that the Scottish Ministers consider it appropriate to bring the substantive provisions of the Bill into force at a date that they consider suitable. The DPM adds that the coming into force of the Bill’s substantive provisions will have implications for parties involved in commercial leases.
In September 2024, the Scottish Government said to SPICe:
We don’t have a date yet for the completion of that work but it should help inform the next steps in due course.
The instrument was laid under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 and was referred to the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee for consideration. The date of commencement for the instrument is 24 February 2025.
Successful applicants, who are granted a full gender recognition certificate, are, from the date of issue, considered in law to be of their acquired gender.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2024
Those savings are detailed in the Cabinet Secretary’s letter to the Committee of the same date and as are follows:
Up to £60 million from emergency spending controls within the Scottish Government;
£65 million of savings from the removal of the discounted Rail Peak Fares and the concessionary fares extension to asylum seekers pilot plus agreement for local ...
The instrument also updates the list of ITAs to reflect the date and location of the amended agreements and inserts a reference into each of the above regulations to a new ITA with Kazakhstan.
The 2019 Act set the level of ambition via the interim targets, with annual targets then set via a ‘straight-line’ approach between the interim dates. The 2024 Bill proposes that the level of ambition, (set via carbon budgets) is now to be set by secondary legislation.
The period that a CCP had to cover was also previously defined as either 15 years or 10-20 years (as long as it ended on an interim target date). The Policy Memorandum sets out that that future CCPs will now have 5-year terms so as to align with the carbon budget periods.
The letter stated that—
“The SSI will include provision to introduce powers enabling the transfer of short-term let licences and the option for prospective hosts constructing or converting buildings for short-term let use to apply for a provisional licence that can be confirmed once the premises are complete” and;
“We are also using the SSI to clarify the period and operation of temporary exemptions, to deliver the intention that these are for a single continuous period of up to six weeks in any 12-month period starting on the date...