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Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025
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The Act changes early-release rules for prisoners and detained children in Scotland, gives Scottish Ministers regulation-making powers, and requires consultation and reporting.
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Scotland
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The Act changes early-release rules for prisoners and detained children in Scotland, gives Scottish Ministers regulation-making powers, and requires consultation and reporting.
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This provision defines private residential tenancies and sets key rules for Scottish tenancy regulation, including consultation duties for Ministers, landlord document duties, discrimination offences, and rent increase limits.
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This segment adds and changes landlord-registration, HMO, overcrowding, and tenancy-document rules, including notice, information, and advertising requirements.
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This part sets out Scotland’s procurement framework, including who counts as a contracting authority, when a contract is regulated, and the main duties on contracting authorities for regulated procurements.
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This Act makes female genital mutilation an offence, allows certain medical exceptions, and lets courts issue protective and anonymity orders.
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This Part sets up a register of property factors in Scotland, requires registered property factors to follow the code of conduct and use their registered number, and creates offences for unregistered operation, false information, and non-compliance with enforcement orders.
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It is an offence to solicit or loiter in a relevant place for the purpose of obtaining the services of a person engaged in prostitution.
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This Act lets certain applicants ask the court to attach a power of arrest to an interdict protecting against abuse, and sets rules for service, expiry, extension, recall, arrest, and detention.
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This Act requires Scottish Ministers to keep a list of people they consider unsuitable to work with children, and bars listed people and similar people in other jurisdictions from certain child-related work.
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This provision sets up the Scheme and the children's and adults' lists, and requires Ministers, organisations, and some personnel suppliers to share prescribed information. It also creates duties for listed individuals to report changes, and offences for barred-role breaches and non-compliance.
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This Act is marked as repealed.
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This Act makes it an offence to assault, threaten, or abuse a retail worker while they are doing retail work, and it increases sentencing where the conduct is tied to enforcing a statutory age restriction.
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The Commissioner must prepare, publish, review, and promote a code of practice for Scottish Ministers’ appointments to specified public bodies, and the Scottish Ministers and other public bodies have several related consultation, information, and compliance duties.
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Local authorities and Health Boards must jointly prepare integration schemes in the situations described, and Scottish Ministers have regulation and approval powers over the scheme and board arrangements.
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This Part requires Scottish public spending to be authorised by Budget Act, sets rules for urgent ministerial authorisation, and gives audit bodies powers and duties over accounts, reports, and data-matching.
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This Act sets up public health duties and powers for Scottish Ministers, health boards, local authorities, clinicians, laboratories, and investigators.
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Authorities covered by this Part must prepare and follow a records management plan for their public records, and the Keeper of the Records of Scotland oversees guidance, agreement, review, and enforcement steps.
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This provision dissolves and restructures several Scottish bodies, transfers functions and property in some cases, and sets reporting, delegation, and consultation rules for listed public bodies and Creative Scotland.
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The Authority may make railway policing agreements, but must involve the chief constable and get Scottish Ministers’ approval first.