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I must therefore say on the record that the councillor whom you mention might simply have been complying with the code of conduct. If the councillor was acting within the code, he was acting absolutely appropriately.
Perhaps the commissioner's work load could be considered in terms of annex 5 of the code of conduct, which deals with the relationship between constituency and regional MSPs.
It helps if members are quiet when I put questions.The first question is, that motion S1M-3386, in the name of Mike Rumbles, on behalf of the Standards Committee, on the "Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament", be agreed to.
During the miners' strike, when miners were going up and down the country, some of the codes of practice to which you referred were used to round them up.
However, I suspect that the fact that ministers have not come to a collective view on the way forward is a coded message that they consider that to be work in progress.
We will point out the link.Subsections (1) and (3) of section 7 contain powers to approve a code of practice by making orders, after consultation, that will be subject to the negative procedure.
It is fairly obvious in a commonsense way that if the FSAS issues such regulations it intends to enforce them. Therefore, the code of practice is legislative in character.
I am very disappointed that this has happened.I remind members of the terms of section 9.4 of the code of conduct for members of the Scottish Parliament, which relates to confidentiality requirements.