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I agree with that and, for the record, so does my assistant.While everything that can be done is being done to establish a watertight code, which we will endorse today, it will not necessarily be the definitive set of rules and regulations.
The convener, Brian Adam, has been delayed by a railway situation, but we expect him to arrive at any time.The first item on our agenda relates to a complaint referred to the committee at stage 3 of the complaints process. The code of conduct specifies that initial consideration should take place in private to ensure that any further investigation is not pr...
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Investigations: Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2003 (draft) Again, we have to ask the Executive what arrangements are in place to bring the enabling powers into force.
Motion moved, That the Parliament endorses the principle of replacing section 93 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 with a provision placing a duty on broadcasters to draw up a code of practice as respects the involvement of candidates in broadcasts pending an election, and agrees that provision to this end in the case of local government election...
How does the DRC intend to monitor and enforce compliance with the DED? I wrote the code on this one—the lovely, lovely code—and I can certainly talk about monitoring and enforcement.
The Office of Fair Trading carried out an audit on the supermarket code of practice last year and said that there was no evidence of supermarkets breaching the code of practice.
I will answer the second of your three questions, on the code of practice, first. Had the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 made provision for a statutory code of practice, that would be an option; however, as no such provision was built into the act, that option is not available to us.