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The code would also cover things that a lawyer would not have to do.We think the code of practice should be statutory because the Scottish Human Rights Centre receives a lot of complaints about solicitors.
Copies of the report are available in the Scottish Parliament information centre.On receipt of the document in February, I promised to publish the Executive's response within three months.
However, I suspect that the fact that ministers have not come to a collective view on the way forward is a coded message that they consider that to be work in progress.
We will point out the link.Subsections (1) and (3) of section 7 contain powers to approve a code of practice by making orders, after consultation, that will be subject to the negative procedure.
I am very disappointed that this has happened.I remind members of the terms of section 9.4 of the code of conduct for members of the Scottish Parliament, which relates to confidentiality requirements.
I am now walking in a landscape that I do not know, but I would suggest that we add the question of consultation to the list of strategic issues that we might wish to discuss at some future date. The Executive has codes of accepted practice that determine when and how it consults, but that is not the same as statutory consultation.
The amendment will be welcomed by the fish farming industry, as the powers in section 27, as amended, will bring the practice that is outlined in the code of good practice into the regulatory regime.
However, four years down the road we should return to first principles and ask ourselves how we ought to deal with statutory instruments and codes of guidance. We should ask ourselves whether our current practice is right.
In section 5.5 of your response, on pre-school education, you talk about the provisions of the Schools (Scotland) Code 1956, and whether registered teachers, who hold the appropriate qualifications for nursery education, should be employed.