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Scotland
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This Act creates female genital mutilation protection orders, allows interim and anonymity orders, and lets courts impose related requirements, notifications, and penalties.
Scotland
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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service must promote fire safety, respond to fires and road traffic accidents, and carry out related planning and reporting duties.
Scotland
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This Act sets rules for buying, owning, supplying, using, and licensing certain fireworks, creates firework control zones, and gives Scottish Ministers and local authorities enforcement and regulation powers.
Scotland
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This provision sets out flood-risk management duties, powers, definitions, and reporting requirements for Scottish Ministers, SEPA, Scottish Water, and local authorities.
Scotland
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This provision establishes Food Standards Scotland and sets out its objectives, functions, governance, reporting duties, enforcement powers, offences, and penalty rules.
Scotland
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This Act lets the court make orders to protect people from forced marriage or civil partnership, and creates an offence for breaching such an order.
Scotland
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Health boards must provide forensic medical examination and retention services, and the Scottish Ministers and Public Health Scotland have reporting, regulatory, and other related duties under the Act.
Scotland
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Scottish Ministers must promote sustainable forest management, prepare and keep a forestry strategy under review, and publish required reports and information. The provision also sets rules for felling, permissions, directions, notices, offences, compensation, and enforcement powers.
Scotland
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This provision gives Ministers powers to build and maintain the Forth Crossing and related works, with detailed limits, consultation duties, compensation rights, and some offences and penalties.
Scotland
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This provision changes the legal status and management of the Forth Road Bridge, transfers the Authority’s property and liabilities to Scottish Ministers, and dissolves the Authority.
Scotland
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The Act changes Scotland’s freedom of information law by adding consultation and reporting duties for Scottish Ministers, adjusting some FOI rules, and setting time limits for certain offence proceedings.
Scotland
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People can ask a Scottish public authority for information and, if the authority holds it, they are generally entitled to receive it, unless an exemption or request-based exception applies.
Scotland
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This Act sets fuel poverty targets, defines fuel poverty and extreme fuel poverty, and requires the Scottish Ministers to prepare, consult on, lay, publish, review, and report on a fuel poverty strategy.
Scotland
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This Act prohibits keeping animals mainly for fur slaughter and creates related offences, fines, forfeiture powers, inspection powers, and a compensation scheme.
Scotland
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This part sets up the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council and gives the Council and Scottish Ministers duties and powers about funding, governance, reviews, and related orders.
Scotland
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This Act sets up Bòrd na Gàidhlig and gives it and public authorities duties and powers to promote Gaelic language, education, and culture, including Gaelic language plans.
Scotland
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This Act repeals the definition of “woman” in section 2 of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018.
Scotland
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This Act requires certain appointing persons and related public authorities to work toward 50% women on public boards and to support women’s applications.
Scotland
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This provision authorises the undertaker to build and maintain the rail works and related works, and sets out land, road, drainage, access, compensation, notice, and environmental rules for doing so.
Scotland
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This Act restricts trading, advertising, and ticket touting around Games locations during prohibited times, gives Ministers and the Organising Committee regulatory and enforcement powers, and sets fines for offences.