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Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs Angela Constance MSP F/T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Stuart McMillan MSP Convener of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee T1.01 Chamber Office EDINBURGH EH99 1SP [email protected] ___ 14 March 2024 Dear Convener Criminal Justice Bill Thank you for your letter of 06 March requesting further information in relation to the following clauses: • Clause 2(3): Power to amend meaning of “relevant article” • Clause 27(2) – New section 71(2) and (5) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000: Duty to make driver information regulations • Clause 27(2) – New section 71A(1) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000: Code...
For example, paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 states that the Code must require a pub-owning business to offer a guest-beer agreement and paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 provides that the Code must require a pub-owning business to offer a market rent only lease to the tied-pub tenant.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 November 2018
The disclosure rule in the Code of Conduct (at Section 9, paragraph 1) states:
“Members must not disclose, communicate or discuss any complaint or intention to make a complaint to or with members of the press or other media prior to the lodging of the complaint or during Stages 1 and 2 of the procedure for dealing with complaints (this procedure is set out in the guidance on the Code of Conduct (the Code)).”
The Committee believes that the new, streamlined documents represent an improvement on the previous multi-volume Code.
The Committee recommends that the Parliament agrees the changes to the Code of Conduct and the written statement determination.
Agenda item 1 is for the committee to decide whether to take items 2, 3 and 4 in private, and whether its consideration of proposed changes to the “Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament” and its approach to a review of the rules on cross-party groups and to question times should be taken in private at future meetings.