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If no complaint has been made, but the Scottish Ministers otherwise establish that there may have been a failure to discharge a duty, they may investigate and, if they do, they must do so within 105 days.
The Scottish Government considers that Part 3 of UKIMA would be engaged by any provisions made under the Bill that set a training standard for practitioners, or prevents practitioners who do not hold certain qualifications or are not existing regulated professionals from providing certain procedures. While there may be remedies under UKIMA, such as the introduction of an individual assessment process under section 26 scheme, these may have a number of practical challenges for the sector.
We also note that paragraph 76 in the FM states that “the Scottish Ministers may choose to work to a ceiling on the overall cost”, which stakeholders expressed concerns about in submissions to this Committee, as this may limit the ability of SDS and the SFC to meet their obligations under TUPE.
Your 20 September letter 2024 indicates that if CCC advice is pushed into May this could result in the 120 days allowed for parliamentary scrutiny of the draft CCP running very close to dissolution.
When choosing providers, consumers relied heavily on recommendations and referrals from friends, family or other professionals. This suggests both that there may be room for the market to diversify, in terms of how services are provided, and that consumers may benefit from the development of new ways in which they ca...
For example, one (or more) individual may simply move into the space created by the removal of another, or a reduction in the number of one predatory species may lead to a numerical increase in another, resulting in no net benefit.