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Judging by the small number of people in the chamber, I believe that people may wonder what the bill has to do with their lives. The fact is that the bill has the potential to make a special day an even happier day in the lives of many couples.
That is a wholly unsatisfactory set of circumstances.Happily, we live in different times. The Scottish Executive has agreed to ditch large swathes of the bill.
However, running away is more likely to occur among young people living in lone-parent or step-parent families than among those living with both birth parents.
The bill proposes that people who are the subject of an application for an intervention or guardianship order and who do not live in Scotland can be examined by a medical practitioner in the country in which they live.