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Last updated: 15 November 2022

Consultation summary Passivhaus v2 FINAL

In its response, West Lothian Council, which was partially supportive in relation to this question, commented on the levels of carbon emitted from a home built to Passivhaus standards, stating that “the Passivhaus standard does not specify a non-carbon emitting at the point of use heating source”, but recognised that: “Passivhaus aims to achieve an annual heating and cooling demand of no more than 15kWh/m...

Last updated: 19 September 2025

TET Bill Stage 1 Report Scottish Government Response Letter and Annexes 19 September 2025_

M inister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans  Graeme Dey MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Douglas Ross MSP Convener Education, Children and Young People Committee The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP [email protected] ___ 19 September 2025 Stage 1 Report on the Tertiary Education and Train...

Last updated: 19 November 2024

Detailed CFV Analysis Revised

I would argue that if assisted dying is to be delivered within current healthcare structures then parliamentarians require to understand and debate the evidence of whether this is safely achievable.” (1AY5-M) However, Friends at the End suggested processes for implementing assisted dying had been left deliberately vague in the Bill because healthcare servic...

Last updated: 11 June 2024

Victims Witnesses and Justice Reform Scotland Bill at Stage 1

BTP recognised that some of the obligations that would be placed upon them by this Bill would be challenging to adhere to and, therefore, we are not pursuing adding BTP to the list of organisations who will be under the scrutiny of the Commissioner at this stage. 4 M onitoring and evaluation of an organisation’s commitment to good practice and trauma-inform...

Last updated: 10 June 2024

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Applications for certain convictions to be treated as spent 32A Excluded sentences: applications for convictions to be treated as spent (1) The Scottish Ministers may make regulations for or in connection with the purpose 35 mentioned in subsection (2). (2) The purpose is allowing a person on whom a relevant sentence was imposed in respect of a conviction to apply (both)— (a) to be treated as a protected person in respect of the conviction for the purposes of the 1974 Act, and Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill 25 Part 2—Disclosure of convictions (b) for the conviction to be treated as spent for the purposes of the 1974 Act. (3) A relevant sentence is— (a) a sentence mentioned in section 5(1)(b) or (da) of the 1974 Act, or (b) a sentence imposed by a court outwith Scotland which, by virtue of section 5 5(2F)(d) of the 1974 Act, falls to be treated as such a sentence. (4) The regulations must contain provision— (a) for— (i) an application to be made to a specified reviewer, and (ii) the application to be determined by the specified reviewer, 10 (b) excluding someone who is, for whatever reason, subject to notification requirements under Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 from making an application, (c) preventing an application from being made until the expiry of the appropriate period, and 15 (d) setting, or for ascertaining, the relevant date. (5) In subsection (4)— (a) in paragraph (c), “the appropriate period” is— (i) in the case of an applicant who was 18 years of age or older on the date of the conviction to which the application relates, the term of the sentence 20 imposed in respect of the conviction plus 6 years, (ii) in the case of an applicant who was under 18 years of age on the date of the conviction to which the application relates, the term of the sentence imposed in respect of the conviction plus 3 years, (b) in paragraph (d), “the relevant date” is the date from which (both)— 25 (i) an applicant’s conviction is to be treated as spent, and (ii) the applicant is to be treated as a protected person. (6) In this section and section 32B, the references to— (a) a protected person, or (b) a conviction being treated as spent, 30 are to be construed in accordance with the 1974 Act. 32B Regulations under section 32A: general details (1) Regulations under section 32A may contain provision about (in particular)— (a) the process for applications, including as to— (i) the way of applying, 35 (ii) information to be supplied by applicants, (b) eligibility to make applications, including exceptions and exclusions, (c) fees payable in connection with applications, 26 Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Disclosure of convictions (d) the functions of the specified reviewer concerning applications, including as to— (i) giving notifications, (ii) obtaining information, (e) the procedure for determining applications, including matters— 5 (i) to which the specified reviewer is to have regard, (ii) which the specified reviewer is to take particularly into account, (f) the types of determinations to be available in respect of applications, and the functions of the specified reviewer concerning determinations, (g) the issuing of, and making of requests for, reasons for determinations, 10 (h) notifications of determinations, (i) time limits in relation to— (i) notifications of applications and determinations, (ii) supplying information in connection with applications, (j) second or subsequent applications relating to the same conviction, including 15 setting a period that must expire before such applications may be made, (k) reconsideration, or consideration afresh, of determinations, (l) reports to be produced by the specified reviewer, or guidance to be given to the reviewer by the Scottish Ministers, on the exercise of the reviewer’s functions concerning applications and determinations, 20 (m...

Last updated: 10 June 2024

Policy Memorandum Health and Care Staffing Scotland Bill

The diagram below illustrates the common staffing method and identifies which aspects relate to the existing triangulation process and the additional duties under this Bill. The common staffing m ethod ! 109. The particular duties set out in this Bill to follow the common staffing method apply to those areas specified in the Bill, and regulations can amend ...

Last updated: 25 April 2024

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(Scotland) Act 2004 is amended as follows. 20 (2) In section 13 (sheriff’s power to make parenting order), in subsection (3), in the definition of “parent”, for “has the meaning” substitute “and “child” have the meanings”. (3) In section 18 (interpretation of Part 2), for the definition of “child” substitute— ““child” (other than in section 13) means a person who is under the age of 18 years;”. 25 27 Named person and child’s plan In the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, the following provisions are repealed— (a) Part 4 and schedule 2, and (b) Part 5 and schedule 3. 30 P ART 4A UNCRC COMPATIBILITY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS 27A UNCRC compatibility issues in relation to decisions to prosecute children (1) The 1995 Act is amended as follows. (2) After section 288B insert— 33 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 4A—UNCRC compatibility issues in criminal proceedings “288BZA UNCRC compatibility issue in relation to decision to prosecute child: restriction on judicial remedies (1) This section applies where— (a) by virtue of section 7(1)(b) of the UNCRC Incorporation Act, a UNCRC 5 compatibility issue has arisen— (i) in criminal proceedings brought against a person who is a child, or who was a child at the time the proceedings were brought, (ii) otherwise than in connection with an appeal against conviction or an appeal against both conviction and sentence, 10 (b) in determining the UNCRC compatibility issue, a court finds that the 1 prosecutor, by bringing criminal proceedings against the person, has acted in a way which is made unlawful by section 6(1) of the UNCRC Incorporation Act, and (c) by reason only of the finding mentioned in subsection (1)(b), a court is 15 considering— (i) deserting the proceedings pro loco et tempore or simpliciter, or (ii) dismissing the indictment or (as the case may be) the complaint or any part of it. (2) Despite section 8(1) of the UNCRC Incorporation Act, a court— 20 (a) may not— (i) desert the proceedings pro loco et tempore or simpliciter, except on the motion of the prosecutor, or (ii) dismiss the indictment or (as the case may be) the complaint or any part of it, but 25 (b) must instead— (i) give the prosecutor an opportunity to reconsider the bringing of criminal proceedings against the person in a way which is compatible with the UNCRC requirements, (ii) adjourn or continue the proceedings to another diet to allow such 30 reconsideration, and (iii) following any such reconsideration, decide whether the bringing of criminal proceedings against the person is compatible with the UNCRC requirements. (3) But a court is not required to act in accordance with subsection (2) if— 35 (a) it considers that there is no reasonable prospect of the bringing of criminal proceedings against the person being reconsidered in a way which is compatible with the UNCRC requirements, (b) it considers that there are exceptional circumstances which justify not doing so, or 40 it decides under subsection (2)(b)(iii) that the bringing of criminal (c) proceedings against the person is incompatible with the UNCRC requirements. 34 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 4A—UNCRC compatibility issues in criminal proceedings (4) Subsection (5) applies where— (a) the court adjourns or continues the proceedings in accordance with subsection (2)(b)(ii), or (b) by virtue of subsection (3), the court decides to desert the proceedings 5 pro loco et tempore. (5) Before adjourning or continuing the proceedings or (as the case may be) deserting the proceedings pro loco et tempore, the court must give the prosecutor an opportunity— (a) in solemn proceedings, to make an application under section 65(3) or 10 (5) for an extension of any of the following periods which apply in 1 respect of the proceedings— (i) the periods of 11 months and 12 months mentioned in section 65(1), including those periods as extended under section 65(3), on appeal under section 65(8) or under section 74(4)(c), 15 (ii) the periods of 80 days, 110 days and 140 days mentioned in section 65(4), including those periods as extended under section 65(5) or on appeal under section 65(8), (b) in summary proceedings in respect of which the period of 40 days mentioned in section 147(1) applies, to make an application under section 20 147(2) for an extension of that period, including that period as extended under section 147(2) or on appeal under section 147(3). (6) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(i), the proceedings are taken to be brought— (a) in solemn proceedings, on the date on which the indictment is served, 25 (b) in summary proceedings— (i) in a case where a warrant to apprehend or cite the accused is granted, on the date on which the warrant is granted, or (ii) in any other case, on the date on which the complaint is served. (7) In this section— 30 “prosecutor” does not include a private prosecutor, “the UNCRC requirements” has the meaning given in section 1(2) of the UNCRC Incorporation Act, “UNCRC compatibility issue” means a question of the kind mentioned in section 288AB(1)(b), 35 “UNCRC Incorporation Act” means the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024.”. (3) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 is amended as follows. (4) In section 8 (judicial remedies), after subsection (5) insert— 40 “(6) Section 288BZA of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 modifies the court’s power under subsection (1) in relation to certain UNCRC compatibility issues in criminal proceedings.”. 35 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 4B—Review of Act P ART 4B R EVIEW OF A CT 27B Review of Act (1) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each 5 review period— (a) undertake a review of the operation of this Act, and (b) prepare a report on that review. (2) The report must, in particular, set out— (a) whether sufficient resources are in place for the effective implementation of the 10 Act, 1 (b) what steps (if any) the Scottish Ministers intend to take as a result of the findings of the review. (3) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after preparing the report— 15 (a) publish the report, and (b) lay the report before the Scottish Parliament. (4) For the purposes of this section, “review period” means— (a) the period of one year beginning with the day of Royal Assent, (b) each subsequent period of one year. 20 RT 5 P A F INAL PROVISIONS 28 Ancillary provision (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for 25 the purposes of, in connection with or for giving full effect to this Act. (2) Regulations under subsection (1) may modify any enactment (including this Act). (3) Regulations under subsection (1)— (a) are subject to the affirmative procedure if they add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act (including this Act), 30 (b) otherwise, are subject to the negative procedure. 29 Interpretation In this Act— “1989 Act” means the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989, “1995 Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, 35 “2010 Act” means the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, “2011 Act” means the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, 36 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Part 5—Final provisions “2016 Act” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016. 30 Modification of enactments The schedule makes further modifications of enactments in consequence of this Act. 31 Commencement 5 (1) This section and sections 28, 29 and 32 come into force on the day after Royal Assent. (1A) Section 27A comes into force on whichever is the later of— (a) the day after Royal Assent, (b) 16 July 2024. (2) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers 10 may by regulations appoint. 1 (3) Regulations under subsection (2) may— (a) include transitional, transitory or saving provision, (b) make different provision for different purposes. 32 Short title 15 The short title of this Act is the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2023. 37 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill Schedule—Minor and consequential modifications Part A1—Children’s hearings system SCHEDULE Introduced by section 30 M...

Last updated: 17 April 2024

VWJR Bill Scottish Government Response to Stage 1 Report 16 April 2024

BTP recognised that some of the obligations that would be placed upon them by this Bill would be challenging to adhere to and, therefore, we are not pursuing adding BTP to the list of organisations who will be under the scrutiny of the Commissioner at this stage. 4 M onitoring and evaluation of an organisation’s commitment to good practice and trauma-inform...

Last updated: 7 March 2023

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Members are advised to lodge amendments in good time before the beginning of a Stage and as early as possible during the day. (G) = Government Bill; (M) = Member s Bill; (C) = Committee Bill; (P) = Private Bill; (H) = Hybrid ’ Bill.