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All that amendment 55 seeks to do is to create a code of practice to ensure that assisted dying interacts appropriately with hospices and other providers of palliative and end-of-life care.
We support the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance’s definition of independent advocacy and the practice around it, working alongside the principal standards and codes of practice. That is important to protect the practice of independent advocacy and to define it correctly.
The vast majority of code 9 patients are delayed because they lack capacity to make their own decisions, and are awaiting completion of applications for guardianship.
For example, he has mentioned that the bill “would have the result that other than in cases where the presiding legal member is the chair, decisions in land registration, title conditions, electronic communications code and disputed compensation cases would all be subject to internal appeal.
In addition to that, most of the acts of the Scottish Parliament include codes of practice, so such legislation cannot be scrutinised without scrutinising those codes.
I think that that is the maximum that I am allowed to say without causing issues under the ministerial code. I have not asked you to share your legal advice, and I will not ask you to do so.