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The UK Government’s First Parliamentary Counsel, Jessica de Mounteney, explained that when drafting UK Bills, the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office is “acutely aware of the likelihood of criticism from the delegated powers committee, and that it informs a lot of our discussions with the department”.vDelegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.
So whilst there is no specific rule that an ineligible person may not be a candidate in a Scottish Parliament election, there is a de facto prohibition as they would be unable to take their seat if successful.
Annexe C - Extracts from minutes of Committee meetings
28th meeting, 2022 (Session 6) Wednesday 30 November 2022
Work programme (In Private): The Committee considered its work programme, agreed that the focus of its next inquiry will be incentivising and de-risking the transition to net zero for business and to consider an approach paper at a future meetin...
Visit to BurntislandVisit to Fraserburgh and InverurieVisit to Hamilton
A Just Transition for the Grangemouth area
This inquiry is looking at how best to support, incentivise and de-risk the transition to net zero in a way that will benefit industry, employees and the community.
This framework provides a template to de-risk and improve the process."vLetter from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry on Supply and Demand for Medicines following 21 January 2020 meeting, 26 February 2020
We were told of circumstances in which medicines were being used for indications for which they were not licensed and Lindsay McClure...
Tackling poverty through human rights de-politicises what it is a matter of law, rather than viewing it as a matter of charity, principle or political aspiration.
Any additional responsibilities for headteachers should take into account:
a) whether each reform proposal could have the effect of reducing headteacher workload; and
b) where reform proposals could increase workload, the need to identify other work that headteachers can de-prioritise or cease altogether to ensure the introduction of reforms is manageable.
As for the DBI programme, which you mentioned, it has, in our view, been quite a success story in Scotland, and it has been particularly effective in de-escalating distress for many thousands of people since its inception.