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The main commencement provision of the Bill enables Scottish Ministers to set the coming into force date by regulation.
Despite strong support for the Bill, some witnesses and respondents to the call for views have commented that there is no commencement date for the Bill and are frustrated by this.
Appendix A: new land plans
Appendix B: Pow benefited land, original vs new
Appendix C: new schedule of heritors (plot size)
Appendix D: new schedule of heritors (five times building footprint)
Letter from Hugh Grierson, Pow Commissioner, to the Clerk, dated 3 May 2018
Submission from Commissioner Hugh Grierson, relating to the Dollerie lands, dated 14 May 2018
This provision allows the Scottish Ministers to make regulations amending the expiry date to 31 March 2021 and to further extend this to date to 30 September 2021.
The paper also explained (at pages 8 and 9) the steps taken to date by the UK Government in response to the ECtHR caselaw, and also noted the consideration of the issue by the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee which recommended that the Scottish Government should “legislate to remove the ban on prisoner voting in its entirety”. 39....
However, we have to take cognisance of the fact that although experts whom Mr Rowley mentioned talked about a target of 2032, the folks who are delivering on the ground—including COSLA and various companies—say that that date would not have been achievable and that 2040 is the best date.