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Last updated: 26 March 2025

Scottish Government response to LRB Stage 1 Report 25 March 2025

Section 27 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 already requires the Tenant Farming Commissioner to prepare a code of practice on the negotiation and conducting of a rent review, and enables them to review and revise any such code.
Last updated: 7 March 2023

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Final Proposal for Member s Bills ’ Neil Bibby: Proposed Tied Pubs (Code and Adjudicator) (Scotland) Bill Proposal for a Bill — to establish a Pubs Code in Scotland to govern the relationship between tenants of tied pubs and their owners, and an Adjudicator to enforce the code...
Committee reports Date published: 18 March 2024

Delegated powers in the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill at Stage 1 - Review of relevant powers

Section 100BA sets out the process to be followed for the Code to be approved; it provides that the Scottish Ministers may approve a draft code with or without modifications and must then lay it before the Parliament.
Committee reports Date published: 2 November 2023

Delegated powers in the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Annex - correspondence with the Scottish Government

This will provide a legislative, rather than voluntary, framework to address this along with the power to issue a code of practice in section 12(2) which local authorities must have regard to.
Official Report Meeting date: 17 February 2026

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee 17 February 2026 [Draft]

The draft code of conduct was submitted with a letter from the minister.
Official Report Meeting date: 6 January 2026

Meeting of the Parliament 06 January 2026

I note that the report of the independent advisers on the ministerial code said that the two breaches of the ministerial code were unintentional and were “inadvertence without any deliberation or intention to mislead.”
Questions and Answers Date answered: 2 December 2021

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The SPCB is currently reviewing the Code of Conduct and has asked officials to provide advice on this matter.  
Questions and Answers Date answered: 12 February 2025

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The Code also outlines our policy on the personal use of Scottish Government IT facilities.
Questions and Answers Date answered: 15 November 2021

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Currently only a small number of countries require a QR code to be displayed.   S6W-03155
Last updated: 4 June 2020

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Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill 5 Part 2—Electoral Commission (4) Regulation 44 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/497) is amended as follows— (a) in paragraph (2)(d), after “section 4(5)” insert “or (5B)”, (b) in paragraph (4)(ii), after “section 4(5)” insert “or (5B)”. 5 P ART 2 E LECTORAL C OMMISSION Codes of practice 8 Expenditure of candidates at Scottish parliamentary elections In the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, after section 6G insert— 10 “6H Code of practice on expenditure of candidates at Scottish parliamentary elections (1) The Commission may prepare, and from time to time revise, a code of practice giving guidance as to— (a) the matters which are, or are not, to be regarded as election expenses, 15 (b) the cases or circumstances in which expenses are, or are not, to be regarded as incurred, for the purposes of any order under section 12(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 in so far as regulating the incurring of expenses for the purposes of a candidate’s election at a Scottish parliamentary general election or an election under 20 section 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 (constituency vacancies). (2) Once the Commission have prepared a draft code under this section, the Commission must submit it to the Scottish Ministers for their approval. (3) The Scottish Ministers may approve a draft code either without modification or with such modifications as they may determine. 25 (4) Once the Scottish Ministers have approved a draft code, they must lay a copy of the draft before the Scottish Parliament, either— (a) in its original form, or (b) in a form which incorporates any modifications determined under subsection (3). 30 (5) If the draft incorporates any modifications determined under subsection (3), the Scottish Ministers must at the same time lay before the Scottish Parliament a statement of their reasons for making the modifications. (6) If, within the 40-day period, the Scottish Parliament resolves not to approve the draft code, the Scottish Ministers must take no further steps in relation to the 35 draft code. (7) If no such resolution is made within the 40-day period— (a) the Scottish Ministers must issue the code in the form of the draft laid before the Scottish Parliament, and (b) the Commission must arrange for it to be published in such manner as 40 the Commission think appropriate. 6 Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill Part 2—Electoral Commission (8) Subsection (6) does not prevent a new draft code from being laid before the Scottish Parliament. (9) In this section, “the 40-day period”, in relation to the draft code, means the period of 40 days beginning with the day on which the draft code is laid before 5 the Scottish Parliament (taking no account of any time during which the Parliament is dissolved or in recess for more than 4 days). (10) In this section, references to a draft code include references to a draft revised code.”. 9 Expenditure of candidates at Scottish local government elections 10 In schedule 4B of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (Scottish local government elections: election expenses) (as inserted by section 17(4) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006), after paragraph 12 insert— “P ART 2A 15 G UIDANCE BY THE E LECTORAL C OMMISSION 12A(1) The Commission may prepare, and from time to time revise, a code of practice giving— (a) guidance as to the matters which do, or do not, fall within Part 1 or Part 2 of this schedule, 20 (b) guidance (supplementing the definition in section 90ZB) as to the cases or circumstances in which expenses are, or are not, to be regarded as incurred for the purposes of a candidate’s election. (2) Once the Commission have prepared a draft code under this paragraph, the Commission must submit it to the Scottish Ministers for their approval. 25 (3) The Scottish Ministers may approve a draft code either without modification or with such modifications as they may determine. (4) Once the Scottish Ministers have approved a draft code, they must lay a copy of the draft before the Scottish Parliament, either— (a) in its original form, or 30 (b) in a form which incorporates any modifications determined under sub- paragraph (3). (5) If the draft incorporates any modifications determined under sub-paragraph (3), the Scottish Ministers must at the same time lay before the Scottish Parliament a statement of their reasons for making them. 35 (6) If, within the 40-day period, the Scottish Parliament resolves not to approve the draft code, the Scottish Ministers must take no further steps in relation to the draft code. (7) If no such resolution is made within the 40-day period— (a) the Scottish Ministers must issue the code in the form of the draft laid 40 before the Scottish Parliament, and (b) the Commission must arrange for it to be published in such manner as the Commission think appropriate.

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