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Scope for Further Reconsideration
Once a Bill has been approved at Reconsideration Stage, it is subject to a four week period during which the Law Officers or Secretary of State may make a legal challenge to the Bill under section 33 and section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, r...
For example, the Presiding Officer could decide that a super-majority was not required, but the Supreme Court could rule that it was. In these circumstances, if the bill had not previously been passed with a super-majority, the Scotland Act allows the opportunity for the bill ...
Frankly, the policy that the SNP is adopting at the moment beggars belief, and Scotland will pay a heavy price if Scottish ministers do not think again on Scotland’s nuclear future.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2025
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Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
This section of the report sets out some of the views expressed to the Committee in evidence.
Colleges Scotland believed that a job guarantee scheme ‘could be highly effective…in addressing the potential scarring effect of the crisis on the lives of young people’.
r=10819&c=1979079Alistair Gaw, representing Social Work Scotland, similarly argued that consideration needed to be given to the potential impact of the Bill on the provision of services by voluntary organisations.8Alistair Gaw, Social Work Scotland. (2017, February 28).
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The Minister confirmed to the Committee that the “provisional view is that the bill’s provisions will apply for contracts entered into after coming into force.”