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This push from MACS was a follow up to our previous engagements in 2022-2023 and earlier in 2023-2024, where we ensured the Minister for Transport was aware of our position and the rationale behind our call for no street exemptions.
Examples of what would constitute "living in the acquired gender" are contained in current guidance, and include updating official documents such as a passport, driving licence, utility bill or bank account. It might also include using gender markers in their acquired gender and using a name that is associated with the acquired gender.
The areas of retained EU law which the framework is trying to implement relate broadly to the following areas:
standards for the safety and quality of blood and blood components
technical requirements for blood and blood donation and the traceability requirements and notification responsibilities in case of serious adverse events or reactions (SAERs)
community standards and specifications relating to the quality system for hospital blood banks...
Patrick Harvie: To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to implement the policy announced in March 2022 in regard to companies maintaining trade links with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
England and Wales created a stand-alone offence of strangulation or suffocation, which came into force in June 2022. Northern Ireland created a new offence of non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation, which came into force on 26 June 2023.
When young crofters or people who want to go into crofting go to a bank to ask for a loan, the bank says no because they do not have a title over the land or they owe it money.
The allocation of funding for swimming pools was made in the United Kingdom budget of October 2022, so it formed part of the block grant that I distributed in December 2022.
Every 16 or 17-year-old who applies will be offered and encouraged to take up the option of a conversation with NRS to talk through the process.3Scottish Parliament. (2022, March 4). Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 03 March 2022.