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Last updated:
29 January 2025
SPBill25AS062025
Regulatory objectives 2 Regulatory objectives 30 (1) The objectives of regulating legal services are— (a) to support the constitutional principles of the rule of law and the interests of justice, (b) to protect and promote the interests of consumers and the wider public interest, (c) to promote— 35 (i) access to justice, (ii) an independent, strong and diverse legal profession, (iii) quality, innovation and competition in the provision of legal services, (iv) effective communication between regulators and legal services providers, and 3 Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Regulatory framework Chapter 1—Objectives, principles and key definitions (v...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2020
S5W-32899
To ask the Scottish Government what the statistical risk is of a care home resident (a) contracting and (b) dying from COVID-19 as a result of someone who has tested positive for the virus being discharged into their care home, and how this compares with the equivalent risks from a person (i) having an alcoholic drink in a pub, (ii) having an alcoholic drink with a starter meal in a restaurant, (iii) attending a soft play centre, (iv) attending a venue with background music playing, (v...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 February 2018
S5W-14560
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to whether the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of X v Finland will impact on mental health law in Scotland, in light of reports that the Scottish legislation allows for the forced treatment of a person detained in hospital to begin before that person has had an opportunity to ap...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2016
S5W-02595
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the (a) vehicles and (b) routes that brought Abellio ScotRail below the performance benchmark in SQUIRE Service Schedule (i) 19 (train seats, tables, racks and other passenger facilities), (ii) 20 (train lighting), (iii) 21 (train toilets), (iv) 22 (train graffiti), (v) 24 (train destination boards, passe...
Last updated:
18 September 2024
WestLothianCouncilSubmissionHousingEmergency
SUMMARY OF IMPLICATIONS I Council Values • Caring and Compassionate • Open, Honest and Accountable • Collaborate, Inclusive and Adaptive II Policy and Legal None (including Strategic Environmental Assessment, Equality Issues, Health or Risk Assessment) III Implications for None Scheme of Delegations to Officers IV Impact on performance None and performance Indicators V Relevance to Single We live in resilient, cohesive and safe Outcome Agreement communities VI Resources - (Financial, To be determined - If proposals are Staffing and Property) implemented as presented this will result in increased resource implications and 19 accommodation costs arising from increased homeless presentations.
Last updated:
18 September 2024
WestLothianCouncilSubmission
SUMMARY OF IMPLICATIONS I Council Values • Caring and Compassionate • Open, Honest and Accountable • Collaborate, Inclusive and Adaptive II Policy and Legal None (including Strategic Environmental Assessment, Equality Issues, Health or Risk Assessment) III Implications for None Scheme of Delegations to Officers IV Impact on performance None and performance Indicators V Relevance to Single We live in resilient, cohesive and safe Outcome Agreement communities VI Resources - (Financial, To be determined - If proposals are Staffing and Property) implemented as presented this will result in increased resource implications and 19 accommodation costs arising from increased homeless presentations.
Last updated:
10 September 2024
20240910_DFM to Convener
Kind regards, KATE FORBES Sco ttish Min iste r s , sp e cial adv is e r s a nd th e Pe r m a n e n t Se cr e ta ry a r e co v e r e d by th e te r m s of th e Lobby in g (Sco tla nd) Act 2 0 1 6 .
Last updated:
10 June 2024
SPBill52S052019Corr
Children (Scotland) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] CONTENTS Section Regard to be had to child’s views 1 Proceedings under Children (Scotland) Act 1995 2 Proceedings under Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 3 Proceedings under Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 ulnerable witnesses and parties V 4 Vulnerable witnesses: prohibition of personal conduct of ca...
Last updated:
14 May 2024
SPBill36BS062024
Personal emergency evacuation plans 9A Personal emergency evacuation plans (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision in relation to the development 30 and provision of personal emergency evacuation plans for occupiers of a building to which a single-building assessment applies who have a disability. (2) Regulations must provide for any personal emergency evacuation plan to expire on the day on which the Scottish Ministers amend the cladding assurance register under section 1(3)(ab) to confirm that all necessary works have been completed. 35 (3) Regulations under subsection (1) are subject to the affirmative procedure. 7 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Powers to assess and address danger Chapter 1—Scottish Ministers’ powers Appeal 10 Appeal against arranged remediation work (1) The owner of premises, having received notice under section 6 that the Scottish Ministers have arranged for work to be carried out on the premises, may appeal to the sheriff 5 against the Scottish Ministers’ decision to make that arrangement. (2) An appeal may be made under this section— (a) without the sheriff’s permission within the 21 day period described by section 6(3), (b) only with the sheriff’s permission on cause shown outwith that period. 10 (2A) The sheriff must— 1 (a) hold a hearing on an appeal under this section within 21 days of the appeal being made, and (b) give the parties to the appeal an opportunity to make representations at the hearing. (2B) At the hearing, the sheriff may— 15 (a) determine the appeal, or (b) on a motion of a party or on the sheriff’s own initiative, continue the proceedings. (2C) In deciding whether to continue the proceedings and, if so, to when, the sheriff must have regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the effect that any continuation of proceedings would have in relation to the elimination or mitigation of risks to human 20 life that— (a) are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by a building’s external wall cladding system, and (b) were identified in the single-building assessment report or the additional work assessment report which identified the need for the work to which the decision 25 appealed relates. (3) On an appeal under this section, the sheriff may— (a) dismiss it, (b) order that only some of the work in question be carried out, (c) order that none of the work be carried out, 30 (d) make any other order the sheriff thinks just. (4) The decision of the sheriff on an appeal under this section is final. 8 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Powers to assess and address danger Chapter 2—Carrying out assessments and work C HAPTER 2 C ARRYING OUT ASSESSMENTS AND WORK 11 Authority for carrying out assessment or work (1) A person carrying out, under an arrangement made under Chapter 1, a single-building 5 assessment, an additional work assessment or work is entitled by this subsection to do anything reasonably required to carry out that assessment or work, including— (a) entering premises (subject to subsections (3) and (4)(a)), (b) taking other persons, and equipment, onto premises, (c) removing things from premises and arranging for their retention until claimed by 10 a person having a right of possession to them, 1 (d) carrying out reasonable tests to determine the properties of any material. (2) Subsection (1) does not, of itself, entitle a person to use force to enter premises (for that a warrant is required under section 12). (3) Subsection (1) does not entitle a person to enter Crown premises without the owner’s 15 consent. (4) A person entitled to enter premises by subsection (1)— (a) is entitled by that subsection to do so— (i) only at a reasonable time of day, and (ii) only if the premises’ occupants have been given at least 24 hours’ notice 20 (subject to subsection (5)), (b) if requested to do so when seeking entry to the premises, or while on them, must produce written evidence of the legal basis for the person’s entitlement to enter them, (c) must leave the premises no less effectually secured against unauthorised entry as 25 the person found them. (5) The requirement for notice under subsection (4)(a)(ii) does not apply in an urgent situation. (6) A person’s entitlement to do anything mentioned in this section is subject to any contrary or qualifying provision in a warrant under section 12. 30 (7) Nothing in this section entitles a person to do any thing— (a) in breach of section 3(2), 3A(3) or 6(2), (b) without any warrant, permission, consent or other approval (however described) from a public authority that would ordinarily be required in relation to doing the thing. 35 12 Warrant authorising use of force to effect entry (1) The holder of a judicial office mentioned in subsection (6) may grant a warrant authorising a person entitled to enter premises by section 11(1) to use reasonable force in accordance with the terms of the warrant. 9 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Powers to assess and address danger Chapter 2—Carrying out assessments and work (2) An application for a warrant under this section may be made only by the Scottish Ministers. (3) A warrant under this section may be granted only if the judicial office-holder is satisfied, by evidence on oath— 5 (a) that there are reasonable grounds for the person to enter the premises for the purpose of doing something the person is entitled to do by section 11(1), and (b) that— (i) entry to the premises has been refused, (ii) such a refusal is reasonably expected, 10 (iii) the premises are unoccupied, 1 (iv) the premises’ occupier is temporarily absent, (v...
Last updated:
7 March 2024
20240305_Alcohol Focus Scotland to HSCS Convener_MUP
Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2022. 11 McLean, J. & Wilson, V. (2020). The Scottish Health Survey 2019 Edition, Volume 1, Main Report .
