The Scottish Parliament has passed two bills of emergency legislation in relation to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Both these bills contain temporary measures that will be in place until such a time as no longer required. They both have time limits and will cease to have legal effect unless parliament votes to extend the application of the measures – again any extension will only be temporary and this is built into the bills.
The 1st bill included measures to ensure that business and public services can continue to operate well, changes to the obligations and duties on public services, changes to the law on evictions that will protect renters and changes to criminal procedure to ensure that essential justice business can continue
The 2nd bill built on these measures and also included changes to protect certain student tenants, provide support for carers and powers to reduce non-domestic rates.
If you are interested you can read the full details of the first bill and its passage through Parliament by visiting here: https://beta.parliament.scot/bills/coronavirus-scotland-bill
The second bill details can be found here: https://beta.parliament.scot/bills/coronavirus-scotland-no2-bill
I spoke in both debates and you can view what I had to say on both bills below.
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