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[email protected]
Text: 07786 209 888
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A sunset clause is a provision within a law which sets an expiration date unless an extension is agreed. This kicked off the committee's interest in incorporating post-legislative scrutiny into its legislative processes.
If your visit is cancelled (by you or by us), we will try to rearrange an alternative date for either an in person visit in Holyrood, an outward session at your school, or an online session.
In March 2025, the Improvement Service published a mapping of local authorities’ adoption of CWB to date. It showed a mixed picture of progress and different approaches being adopted in different areas.
In a similar vein, some contributors questioned how comfortably the legalisation of assisted dying could sit alongside an effective suicide prevention strategy and work undertaken in Scotland to date to reduce levels of unassisted suicide.
This includes, for example, the use of Blue Badges by family or friends when the individual to whom the badge has been issued is not travelling with them or the use of an out-of-date badge. The 2014 Act gives local authorities stronger enforcement powers (as outlined above) than previously held, including the ability to cancel or confiscate a badge they con...