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Scottish Ministers must consult such persons they consider appropriate before making such a revised code of practice.
The Scottish Ministers must re-publish the code of practice as revised unless none of the revisions materially alters the effect of the code.
I can confirm the figure of £25,000 is a historic figure which has been included in previous Model Codes and Councillors Codes. The continued use of £25,000 as the trigger point in the Model Code maintains consistency with the Councillor’s Code and with the members codes of the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
The redraft does not involve the alteration or removal of any of the Code’s current rules.
The Committee proposes that the current four-volume Code be replaced with a single, standalone document which contains all of the rules that MSPs must abide by.
That is all regulated by the special adviser code. The issues that affect special advisers are fully and properly considered by the nature of their code, which channels them into the civil service grouping.
LGCC2018R9
Report on the revised Code of Conduct for Councillors
Report from the Local Government and Communities Committee on the revised Code of Conduct for Councillors (SG/2018/65).
The inclusion of the “have regard to” provision in the Bill risks undermining the regulatory force of the Code, and he recommended-
“While the content of the Code is still to be determined it should clearly embed within it human rights standards and Open Rights Group sees no reason why the Code should not exist as binding, requiring those bodies to whom the Code applies to follow, not just “have regard to” the Code of Practice."
Details of what the notifications must include would be identified in the Code of Practice, including timescales, but could be subject to future change.
It has a particular focus on the various human rights of trans people (and sometimes other groups) that would be placed at significant risk if the EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice produced following the ruling were to be made statutory.