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Official Report Meeting date: 10 January 2023

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 10 January 2023

The revised code makes that all much clearer. The previous version of the code was not so clear.
Official Report Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 22 November 2018

The complaint is that Peter Chapman may have breached the “Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament” by failing to disclose his shareholding in ANM Group when making representations on the company’s behalf to members of Aberdeenshire Council’s Garioch area committee.
Committee reports Date published: 23 May 2024

Complaint against Michael Matheson MSP

The MSPs' Code of Conduct is available from the Scottish Parliament's website.[3] The above taken from your version of the code and signed off by you.
Official Report Meeting date: 18 November 2025

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 18 November 2025 [Draft]

Ever since then, both commissions have been wary of overly ambitious codes in general. A code is desirable for the purposes of knowing what the law is—there is a case for it across the board.
Official Report Meeting date: 23 February 2023

COVID-19 Recovery Committee 23 February 2023

I had to go and find the code that we type in—the letters and numbers.
Official Report Meeting date: 27 September 2017

Education and Skills Committee 27 September 2017

You engage with schools. What do you want to see from the code of practice? I do not think that the code of practice needs to be in legislation.
Official Report Meeting date: 5 June 2024

Economy and Fair Work Committee 05 June 2024

As I have said, putting the voluntary code on a statutory footing removes the two-tier system and the potential for people not to apply the voluntary code.
Last updated: 5 February 2020

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Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Bill 5 7 Effect of the code (1) The following persons must comply with the code of practice when exercising functions to which the code relates— (a) constables and police staff of the Police Service of Scotland, 5 (b) the Scottish Police Authority, (c) the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner. (2) A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings must take the code of practice into account when determining any question to which the code is relevant. (3) Failure to comply with the code of practice does not of itself give rise to grounds for any 10 legal action. (4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend subsection (1) so as to add a person or description of person, vary an entry listed in it, or remove an entry. (5) In this section, “constable” and “police staff” have the same meanings as in section 99(1) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. 15 8 Consultation on the code (1) In preparing a draft code of practice, the Commissioner must consult— (a) the Scottish Ministers, (b) the Lord Advocate, (c) the Lord Justice General, 20 (d) the Faculty of Advocates, (e) the Law Society of Scotland, (f) the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland, (g) Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary in Scotland, (h) the Scottish Police Authority, 25 (i) the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner, (j) the Information Commissioner, (k) the Scottish Human Rights Commission, (l) the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland, and (m) such other persons as the Commissioner considers appropriate. 30 (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), it is immaterial that anything done by way of consultation was done before this section comes into force. 8A Further procedure in relation to the first code (1) Having prepared a draft of the first code of practice with which the Commissioner, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, wishes to proceed, the Commissioner must lay a 35 copy of it before the Scottish Parliament. (2) In finalising a draft of the first code of practice, the Commissioner must have regard to any representations about it that are made to the Commissioner within 60 days of the date on which the copy of it is laid under subsection (1). 6 Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Bill (3) In calculating the period of 60 days for the purpose of subsection (2), no account is to be taken of any time during which the Parliament is dissolved or in recess for more than 4 days. 8B Approval of the code 5 (1) Once the Commissioner has finalised a draft code of practice, the Commissioner must submit it to the Scottish Ministers for approval. (2) The Scottish Ministers may approve a draft code of practice— (a) without modification, or (b) with such modifications as they, with the consent of the Commissioner, consider 10 appropriate. (3) If the Scottish Ministers do not approve a draft code of practice, they must give the Commissioner a statement of their reasons for not approving it. 9 Bringing the code into effect (1) A code of practice approved under section 8B(2) has no effect until the day appointed 15 for the code by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers. (2) Ministers must, when laying before the Scottish Parliament a draft of an instrument containing such regulations, also lay a copy of the approved code of practice. (3) The Commissioner must publish the approved code of practice as soon as reasonably practicable after the regulations are made. 20 10 Report on the code of practice (1) The Commissioner must— (a) keep the code of practice under review, (b) prepare and publish a report on the Commissioner’s findings, and (c) lay a copy of the report before the Scottish Parliament. 25 (2) The first report prepared under subsection (1) must be laid before the Parliament no later than 3 years after the date on which the first code of practice comes into effect. (3) Subsequent reports prepared under subsection (1) must be laid before the Parliament no later than 4 years after the date on which the last such report was laid.
Last updated: 13 February 2026

SPCB 2026 Paper 07

In September 2024, the SPCB commissioned work from officials to review all SPCB policies that comprise the bank of policies applicable to Members as part of the Code of Conduct, to ensure they are fit for purpose ahead of Session 7. 2.
Last updated: 9 December 2025

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The matter of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, which underpins infrastructure for climate change, should also be taken into consideration.

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