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Section 76(5) states:"A relevant person must have regard to the code"in the circumstances indicated. It would be helpful for the code to be laid before the Parliament and widely consulted on.
Had there been enough space on the census form to allow automatic coding for the "Another Religion" category, the information requested by the petitioner would have been produced as part of the standard census output.
We should know what the position is, it should be transparent and there should be codes of practice. Interim codes of practice are at the heart of this proposed bill, but this committee never sees those codes.
All NHS board members areexpected to comply with a Code of Conduct, which has been approved by the Scottish ministers, and which has been based on a standard Model Code ofConduct.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 March 2003
In response to Elaine Murray's question, ministers will be able to issue a statutory code of practice on ragwort control similar to the code that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has introduced.