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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.
It can, according to the Scottish Government, therefore be distinguished from the safety code under section 64 of the Bill, where failure to comply with the code is taken to amount to a failure to discharge the underlying duties.
The redraft did not involve the alteration or removal of any of the Code’s existing rules.
The Committee replaced the four-volume Code with a stand-alone document which contained all the rules that MSPs must abide by.
It will set targets and prioritises activities by balancing the need to meet its statutory duties to adjudicate on complaints about breaches of the Codes of Conduct and to provide guidance, with other objectives.
This was achieved in 2016, with the Office for Statistics Regulation confirming they met the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value as set out in the Code of Practice for 1 Official Statistics .