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I accept that it is an important point, but Iain Smith was—albeit for a rather brief period—a minister in the previous Administration, and he knows very well that it is a feature of the Scottish ministerial code that the fact and the content of legal advice should not be commented upon.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2025
Retrieved from https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rapports/cion-soc/l17b1281_rapport-fond
Germany
In 2015, two different laws were adopted in Germany. One amended the criminal code to criminalise commercial, ‘business-like’ assisted suicides (§ 217 German Criminal Code) and the other aimed to improve hospice a...
Regulations under this section will require (inserted sections 44B and 44C):
the owner of land to ensure that there is a publicly available land management plan, that there is engagement with communities on the plan or any significant changes and that the plan is reviewed every 5 years;
to set out the information that a land management plan must contain including details of the land, the long-term vision or objectives of managing the land, how the owner is complying with obligations in the regulations, the Scottish Outdoor Access Code...
I ask the member to acknowledge that, from 2001 to 2006, there was a code of voluntary reporting, so, although the figure is exceptional, it might have been grossly underreported.
We can take the code into account in that respect, but we cannot impose it on anyone.If we want to have a coherent policy across Europe, there must be coherent action across Europe.
A volunteer test purchaser is controlled by the national code of guidance, which is scrupulously fair—in my view, it is overfair—therefore we would never use someone who looked older.
However, section 25 of the 1990 act clearly states that a code of practice will be imposed on those who wish to exercise the right to conduct litigation.