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Sp Catalog a 01 Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications April 2003 - December 2003 Published 2008 ISBN: 978 033880064 0 TSO subscription classification: 7001039 Contents TSO Contacts iv Business Bulletin 22 Contacts iv What’s happening in the Scottish Parliament 24 Introduction 1 SPICe Research Publications 27 Parliamentary Publications 3 SPICe Briefings 27 Bills 3 Documents Subject to Scrutiny 29 Scottish Parliament Bills - Session 2 (2003) 3 Passage of Bills 7 Laid Papers 29 Parliamentary Papers 8 Scottish Executive Papers 2003 29 Auditor General for Scotland 38 Official Report - Plenary Session 11 Scottish Public Services Ombudsman 39 Official Report - Plenary Session. 11 Draft Statutory Instruments 39 Minutes of Proceedings 13 Petitions 40 Written Answers 14 Official Report (Committees) 15 Statutory Publications 45 Audit Committee 15 Acts 45 Communities Committee 16 Acts of the Scottish Parliament 2003 45 Education Committee 16 Acts of the Scottish Parliament - Explanatory notes 2003 46 Enterprise and Culture Committee 17 Environment and Rural Development Committee 17 Statutory Instruments 47 Equal Opportunities Committee 17 European and External Relations Committee 18 Commencement orders 2003 47 Finance Committee 18 Scottish Statutory Instruments 2003 50 Health Committee 18 Subscription Titles 79 Justice 1 and Justice 2 Committees 19 Justice 1 Committee 19 Standing Orders 79 Justice 2 Committee 19 Justice 1 and Justice 2 Committee Partner Libraries 81 (joint meeting) 20 Index 85 Local Government and Transport Committee 20 Procedures Committee 20 Public Petitions Committee 20 Standards Committee 21 Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee 21 Subordinate Legislation Committee 21 iii Contacts The Scottish Parliament Legal Search Room Scottish Executive Library and Information Services The Parliament may be contacted by telephone. National Archives of Scotland Switchboard and HM General Register House K-Spur Public Information - 0131 348 5000 Princes Street Saughton House General Enquiries - 0845 278 1999 Edinburgh, EH1 3YY Broomhouse Drive Tel. 0131 535 1352 By post to The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh, EH11 3XD Edinburgh EH99 1SP Tel. 0131 244 4555 Contact: Morag Higgison or Jenny Foreman e-mail [email protected] National Library of Scotland George IV Bridge Partner Libraries Scottish Parliament Shop Edinburgh, EH1 1EW Tel. 0131 226 4531 See list on page 103 The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh, EH99 1SP e-mail: [email protected] Tel. 0131 348 5412 TSO Contacts TSO TSO Agents in Scotland Other TSO Offices TSO Scotland John Smith & Son Bookshop TSO Ireland 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD Tel: 0870 606 5566 Tel: 0141 332 8778 Tel: 02890 238451 Fax: 0870 606 5588 Fax: 0141 332 5717 Fax: 02890 235401 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.johnsmith.co.uk TSO Orders/Post Cash Dept PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN Blackwell’s Bookshop Tel: 0870 600 55 22 99 High Street, Aberdeen AB24 3EN Fax: 0870 600 55 33 Tel: 01224 486102 Email: • For Customer Service enquires – Fax: 01224 276162 [email protected] Email: [email protected] • For Subscription enquiries – [email protected] • For Standing Order enquiries – [email protected] Web: www.tsoshop.co.uk iv Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications Introduction This bibliography records publications of the Scottish Parliament during this period. It also includes some statutory publications. Its objective is to help people to understand the Parliament and its work by providing a comprehensive and comprehensible guide to the relevant documentation. Under each heading we explain what the documents are and then list them. There is guidance on how to obtain each type of document. Most of the Parliament’s publications are available as printed publications in addition to being available electronically via our website: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/home.htm Previous bibliographies, listed below, are also available on our website at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/corporate/bibliographies/index.htm Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications, July 2002 to March 2003 Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications, July 2001 to June 2002 Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications, July 2000 to June 2001 Scottish Parliamentary and Statutory Publications, May 1999 to July 2000 Parliamentary Procedure The Parliament's procedures are primarily governed by the Standing Orders. In addition, a number of volumes of guidance have been produced by the Clerking and Reporting Directorate to explain how key aspects of Parliamentary business operate in practice, by reference to relevant standing orders, determinations, conventions and practices. Although the guidance is aimed primarily at MSPs and clerks, it is also a useful reference source for anyone wishing to follow Parliamentary proceedings in detail. More information on parliamentary procedure is available on our website at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/parliamentaryProcedure/index.htm Parliamentary Copyright All Parliamentary copyrights are reserved. Individuals are authorised to download text from the Parliament’s website or to copy printed documents for their own individual use. Any other proposed reproduction requires the assent of the Copyright Unit of the Office of the Queen’s Printer for Scotland, which administers the copyright on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The address of the Copyright Unit is: The Copyright Unit, Office of the Queen’s Printer for Scotland, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1BQ. 1 2 Parliamentary Publications 1-EN Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Navigation and Fishing) (Scotland) Bill: Bills explanatory notes (and other accompanying documents). - [12]p.: 30 cm. - These documents relate to the Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Navigation and Fishing) (Scotland) Bill A Bill is a draft law. Bills are either public - seeking to change the (SP Bill 1, ISBN 0338205470) as introduced in the Scottish general law - or private - seeking powers for a particular individual or Parliament on 15 May 2003. A Promoters’ Memorandum is organisation that are in excess of or in conflict with the general law. printed separately as SP Bill 1-PM (ISBN 0338205497). - 16-05-2003 - 0 33 820548 9 - £2.10 Public Bills can be introduced by a member of the Scottish Executive (an 1-PM Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Navigation and “Executive Bill”), a parliamentary committee (a “Committee Bill”), or an Fishing) (Scotland) Bill: individual member of Parliament (a Member’s Bill”). Private Bills are promoters’ memorandum. - [12]p.: 30 cm. - This introduced by the person seeking the powers provided for by the Bill. memorandum relates to the Robin Rigg Offshore Wind A Bill is issued with accompanying documents. These can include, Farm (Navigation and Fishing) (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 1, whether it is within the Parliament’s legislative competence (statement ISBN 0338205470) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on legislative competence), an explanation of the Bill’s provisions on 15 May 2003. Explanatory notes are printed separately (explanatory notes), the policy behind the Bill (policy memorandum) and as SP Bill 1-EN (ISBN 0338205489). - 16-05-2003 - estimates of the Bill’s administrative and other costs (financial 0 33 820549 7 - £2.10 memorandum). Accompanying documents are usually grouped for 1-ML Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Navigation and publication and are printed separately from the Bill. Fishing) (Scotland) Bill: Bills are numbered sequentially within each session as they are marshalled list of amendments selected for final stage. - published, in the following way - SP Bill 1, SP Bill 2 etc. Accompanying [4]p.: 30 cm. - This version replaces that published on 10 documents have the same numbering system as the bill they relate to June 2003 (ISBN 033820556X) and is being issued free of but with the addition of an explanatory abbreviation, e.g. - SP Bill 1-EN charge to all known recipients of the original. - 25-06-2003 - (explanatory notes), SP Bill 1-PM (policy memorandum). 0 33 820564 0 - £1.10 Subsequent versions of the bill are numbered SP Bill 1A, SP Bill 1B etc. 1A Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Navigation and Each version of the bill has an addendum to the title describing what stage Fishing) (Scotland) Bill: the bill is at - [As Introduced], [As Amended at Stage...], [As Passed]. (as passed). - [12]p.: 30 cm. - 27-06-2003 - 0 33 820568 3 - £2.10 Marshalled lists follow the same system, but use the abbreviation ML. (A marshalled list is a document prepared for each amending stage of a 2 Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine Railway and Linked bill (or each day at the stage) showing all the admissible amendments Improvements Bill: lodged for the stage and not so far disposed of, in the order in which (as introduced). - ii, 35, [1]p.: 30 cm. - An Act .. to they will be considered.) authorise the reconstruction of a railway from Stirling to Kincardine; to authorise the construction of the Alloa More information on Bills can be found on our website at Eastern Link Road, necessitated by the railway. - Private bill http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/bills/index.htm published 16 May 2003. - Explanatory notes, together with other accompanying documents, are printed separately as SP Bill 2-EN (ISBN 0338205519). A Promoters’ Scottish Parliament bills - Session 2 (2003) Memorandum
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