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The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4) is an act of the Scottish Parliament.It was passed on 29 March 2000, receiving royal assent on 9 May. [3] It concerns the welfare of adults (the age of legal capacity in Scotland being 16) who are unable to make decisions for themselves because they have a mental disorder or are not able to communicate.
The common law offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm was abolished, [10] and section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 was repealed, [11] on a date three months after 19 May 1997. [12] The modern offences of assault, assault causing harm, and causing serious harm were created by that Act. [13]
This section consolidates section 2B of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976, as inserted by the Incest and Related Offences (Scotland) Act 1986. Section 3 made it an offence for a person over the age of 16 to have sexual intercourse with a child under 16 where that person is a member of the same household as the child and is in a position ...
The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 47) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which required every local authority in Scotland to provide a network of sewers to ensure that domestic sewage, surface water and trade effluent was effectively drained from their area, and to construct sewage treatment works or other facilities to deal with the contents of those sewers.
For example, section 15 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 allows the Scottish Ministers to make regulations setting out how charities refer to themselves in documents, and the Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007 sets out in regulation 2 how a charity must refer to itself, and in regulation 4 ...
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) in Scotland had the remit of scrutinising education services, and had a specific role to monitor child protection services. It was the latter function which was transferred to the Care Inspectorate (SCSWIS) in 2011. [2] The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force in April 2011 ...
The Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 is the current statutory framework for compensation of land. These provisions replace those found in the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act 1919. [19] Section 12 of the 1963 Act sets out the rules in which compensation must be assessed. [20]
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