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For the Code of Ethics, requirements around the creation of the Code mean that the Chief Constable will need to involve a number of parties in consideration of the Code, and that certain key sources will have to be at the forefront of the Chief Constable’s mind when preparing the Code.
Proactive publication duty and publication code
As discussed in Access to information held by Scottish public authorities, the Bill proposes replacing the current publication scheme duty with a duty to publish, underpinned by a code of practice issued by the Scottish Information Commissioner.1Scottish Government. (2...
The instrument also amends the Road Works (Reinstatement)(Scotland) Regulations 1992 to insert a definition of the current statutory code of practice issued in 2019.
The Scottish Government has confirmed that the intention is that the 2008 Regulations also refer to the current version of the code issued in 2019, not the code issued in 2003.
Under sections 1 and 2 of the 2000 Act the Scottish Ministers are required to produce a Councillors’ Code of Conduct (“the Councillors’ Code”) along with a Model Code of Conduct for members of devolved public bodies (‘the Model Code’).
It also has significant experience of university governance, having been consulted in the development of governance codes and the sector’s audit code of practice.