The Scottish Government has produced a Delegated Powers Memorandum (“DPM”) on the delegated powers provisions in the Bill.iThe Delegated Powers Memorandum is available here: http://www.parliament.scot/Islands%20(Scotland)%20Bill/SPBill15DPMS052017.pdf
Overview of the Bill
This Government Bill was introduced by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity, Fergus Ewing MSP, on 9 June 2017.
The Bill’s purposes are to make provision for a national islands plan, to impose a duty on certain public authorities to have regard to island communities, to make provision about the electoral representation of island communities, and to establish a licensing scheme in respect of marine development adjacent to islands.