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Copies of the consultation paper and the accompanying "Draft Scottish Outdoor Access Code" will be sent to the relevant Parliamentary Committees and to all MSPs.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 January 2001
The Scottish Retail Consortium was unsure about how the code would pan out. It has member organisations in the retail sector, but will it be able to persuade them to sign up to the code?
The debate in the Justice 2 Committee alluded to some guidance, but the guidance, although it is good, is a voluntary code rather than a compulsory one. More could be done in the bill to make good conduct compulsory.
It explains how to indicate that we are turning left by putting our right hand out of the window. However, when I last read the code I did not notice that it said anything about what to do if an emergency vehicle is approaching.
When one considers the historic build-up of council housing debt, an issue that immediately comes to mind is the previous treatment of right-to-buy receipts. Councils were encouraged to use right-to-buy receipts to provide the housing service and were not required to pay down the proportional amount of debt on each h...
I do not think that the definition is set out in more depth than that. However, the code of conduct for councillors sets out exactly what interests they are required to register.
Section 51 relates to directions in respect of a duty under section 89 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and raised the question of the difference between direction and the code of practice and the issue of parliamentary scrutiny.