Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED AT STAGE 2] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about gender representation on boards of Scottish public authorities. 1 Gender representation objective (1) The “gender representation objective” for a public board is that it has 50% of non- 5 executive members who are women. (2) Where a public board has an odd number of non-executive members, the percentage mentioned in subsection (1) applies as if the board had one fewer non-executive member. 2 Key definitions 10 In this Act— “appointing person” means, in relation to the function of appointing a non- executive member of a public board, a person who has that function, “excluded position”, in relation to a public authority, means a position mentioned in the second column of the table in schedule 1 which corresponds with the public 15 authority mentioned in the first column, “non-executive member”, in relation to a public authority, means a position on its public board— (a) that is not an excluded position, (b) that is not held by an employee...