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The Committee intends to reflect more generally on the process for excluded complaints that have been referred to the Committee by the SPCB and whether any updates to the Code of Conduct or the Guidance on the Code might be recommended.
The Rural Affairs and Islands Committee recommends that the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Pigs (Revocation) (Scotland) Notice 2023 (SG/2023/304) be approved.
One document was withdrawn and re-laid during this period:
Draft Code of Practice: The Non-Party Campaigner Campaign Expenditure (Scottish Parliament Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (withdrawn on 5 November 2025, re-laid on 10 November 2025) (Committee report of 23 September 2025).
We concluded that, even though someone does not say which part of the code they are complaining has been breached, we can assure them that we have looked at the whole code in relation to the conduct concerned in order to reach a decision, and we can explain why certain bits of the code are applicable.
In February 2020 the Committee considered an annual monitoring report on Groups' compliance with the Code of Conduct. The Committee agreed to take no action against any Groups who had breached the Code of Conduct due to the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus.
As it did at introduction, section 9(1) continues to provide that any code of practice has no effect until the day appointed for the code by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.
As it did at introduction, section 9(1) continues to provide that any code of practice has no effect until the day appointed for the code by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2022