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The following day (9 September 2020), the UK Government published the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill 2019-21.
SPICe will provide further analysis on this bill and its implication for Scotland.
The duration of the power in the current bill differs from the provisions in the first UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2018 but did not received Royal Assent (more details on the previous bill are provided later in this briefing).
The Promoter's Memorandum states that, in relation to the proposals to provide the Society with new statutory powers to close the Society at a later date:
The consultation with the membership of the SSC Society has confirmed the desire to be prepared, even if the event guarded against does not come to pass.1Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland (Amendment) Bill, Promoter's Memorandum (SP Bill 55-PM). (2019, September 27).
Overview of the Bill
The Bill introduces a “deemed authorisation” system for deceased organ and tissue donation for the purposes of transplantation (otherwise known as a “soft opt out” system).
The Central Scotland Regional Forestry Forum and the Royal Scottish Forestry Society stated that it was unclear why the bill should carry forward the felling direction powers from the 1967 Forestry Act into sections 31 and 32 of the bill.
Ms Chisholm, you have talked about working with third sector organisations, and I am sure that there was a lot of learning from the Covid recovery and resilience groups that were set up across Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2018
We hope that this will also encourage MSPs to realise that we are not a technical scrutiny committee doing work of interest only to lawyers, but rather provide an opportunity for elected politicians to be directly involved in important debates about what human rights mean for the people of Scotland.