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Consumer Scotland (Transfer of Functions) Regulations 2022
The Consumer Scotland Act 2020 established Consumer Scotland as a statutory independent consumer body.
Current policy position
As part of the Scottish Government's target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045, a ban that will prohibit certain types of F-gases being used to service or refill refrigeration systems has been in place since 2020.
There are two relevant UK regulations:
Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/310)
Ozone-Depleting Su...
The final framework documents should refer to the updated process for agreeing exclusions from the Internal Market Act (2020), to clarify the role of civil servants in the dispute resolution process.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 February 2022
The Regulations make provision alongside the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 to allow applications to the property registers to be submitted electronically (as electronic copies of paper documents), by making digital submission the default method of submission for these Land Register and Register of Sasines applications, subject to exceptions.
Work on the development of the final fuel poverty strategy resumed earlier this year following the pause in March 2020 due to the reprioritisation of resources to support the government wide efforts on tackling the pandemic.
Use of media moved beyond videos into animations, Twitter threads and a podcast recorded with the Convener in June 2020 to explore in detail the Medicines Report was downloaded by 500 people.
While the cyber kiosks were eventually rolled out in early 2020, it was done with more information available in the public domain, greater scrutiny and due diligence, and improved internal governance.
At the SPA’s Policing Performance Committee meeting of 17 November 2020, Police Scotland confirmed that the purchase cost for each drone was about £7,000.
The Committee has continued to scrutinise the Government’s response to its report with further evidence sessions being held in August 2020 and in February 2021.
The Committee remains frustrated by the pace with which the Scottish Government is responding to this extremely serious issue.