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These terms do not necessarily have one single definition, but have been further explained by the Scottish Government in the Code of Practice on Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture ('the Code') published in March 2026.
PE2224 Review legislation in order to strengthen the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
PE2224 Review legislation in order to strengthen the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
The Tied Pubs (Fees and Financial Penalties) (Scotland) Regulations 2024)
These Regulations set out the maximum financial penalty the Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator can impose on a pub-owning business for not complying with the code.
Scottish Ministers must consult on the code in preparing it, explicitly including local authorities and SEPA, and must lay a draft code in the Scottish Parliament for a minimum period of 40 days before its completion (with no account to be taken of time when Parliament is dissolved or in recess for more than 4 days)....
Committee reports
Date published:
12 November 2025
Following the laying of the draft Code, it transpired that one of the statutory preconditions for the making of the draft Code appears not to have been fulfilled: the requirement in section 100BA(1)(a) of the 2020 Act that the Electoral Commission must consult the Scottish Parliament on a draft of the Code before submitting it to the Scottish Ministers for approval.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
As the muirburn code would be central to the muirburn licensing scheme, the Committee believes that further information about the updated muirburn code would inform the Parliament’s consideration of the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2023
Regulation 17(2) of the instrument amends the Road Works (Reinstatement)(Scotland) Regulations 1992 at regulation 2(1) to provide that “the Code means the code of practice entitled “Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Roads” approved by the Scottish Ministers in February 2019 as revised and reissued from time to time” thereby replacing the earlier Code dated October 2003.
There is a hierarchy – From the top down: Act, Statutory Code, Non Statutory Guidance. 10. What the London EHRC has done is to publish non-statutory guidance inconsistent with the Statutory Code. 11.