This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
As soon as a Public Bill (i.e. a Government, Committee or Member’s Bill) has completed Stage 1, amendments for consideration at Stage 2 may be lodged; and as soon as Stage 2 is completed, amendments for Stage 3 consideration may be lodged.
Members indicated agreement. On SSI 2020/372, the committee may wish to invite the Scottish Government to consider, in future, that when an instrument amends provisions that do not yet exist, the reader’s attention should be drawn to that.
Sections 5 and 7 of the Bill ensure that Consumer Scotland may do this directly; however, it may be more practical for Consumer Scotland to facilitate provision by another organisation, and this is also provided for in section 5 of the Bill.
Section 20(3) provides that the regulations may include transitional, transitory or savings provision, and may make different provision for different purposes.