Not to be confused with Act of the Scottish Parliament.
The Scotland Acts are a set of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom which relate to the creation and devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.
The term Scotland Act may refer to:
Scotland Act 1978, part of an initial attempt at a devolved Scotland (repealed 1979)
Scotland Act 1998, which formed the devolved Scottish Parliament
Scotland Act 2012, which devolved further powers (primarily relating to taxation)
Scotland Act 2016, which devolved a number of transport- and finance-related powers
Parliament. The term ScotlandAct may refer to: ScotlandAct 1978, part of an initial attempt at a devolved Scotland (repealed 1979) ScotlandAct 1998, which formed...
The ScotlandAct 1998 (c. 46) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which legislated for the establishment of the devolved Scottish Parliament...
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
his intention to unite the two realms. The 1603 Union of England and ScotlandAct established a joint Commission to agree terms, but Parliament of England...
was set out by an Act of Parliament in the National Galleries of ScotlandAct 1906, amended by the National Heritage (Scotland) Act 1985. Its role is...
monopoly provisions of the Bank Charter Act 1844 only applied to England and Wales. The Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1845 was passed the following year, and...
The ScotlandAct 1978 (c. 51) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to establish a Scottish Assembly as a devolved legislature for...
under legal arrangements that allow Scottish banks to issue currency. In June 2006, the HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 was passed by the Parliament...
by September 2011. In Scotland, legal aspects of the presumption of death are outlined in the Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27). If a person...
councils. This act amended the Scotlandact of 1968, notably to include the option to cancel a new town proposal. The New Towns Act 1981 is an "Act to consolidate...
The ScotlandAct 2012 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sets out amendments to the ScotlandAct 1998, with the aim of devolving further...
'Yes' victory, leading to the ScotlandAct 1998 being passed and the Scottish Parliament being established in 1999. Scottish voters were given the chance...
territorial sea." In the ScotlandAct 1998 there is no delineation of Scotland, with the definition in section 126 simply providing that Scotland includes "so much...
Scots law. Since the Union with England Act 1707, Scotland has shared a legislature with England and Wales. Scotland retained a fundamentally different legal...
legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament has been amended numerous times since then. The ScotlandAct 2012 and ScotlandAct 2016 expanded the Parliament's...
"councils". They have the option under the Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997 of being known (but not re-designated) as a "comhairle" when opting...
to the Scottish Parliament; this led to the passing of the ScotlandAct 2016, formalising new devolved policy areas in time for the 2016 Scottish Parliament...
non-public bodies under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. The development of powers of compulsory purchase in Scotland originated in the railway mania of...
Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United...
and the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 established a language-development body, Bòrd na Gàidhlig. Aside from "Scottish Gaelic", the language may...
Titles Act 1896. The short title of the act of the Irish Parliament is Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (40 Geo. 3. c. 38 (I)), assigned by a 1951 act of the...
purposes after 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Today, local government in Scotland is based upon council areas, which sometimes incorporate...
referendum of 1979 led to the Act not being implemented. Following the 1997 referendum and ScotlandAct 1998, Scottish devolution led to the establishment...
Minister of Scotland upon the re–establishment of both the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament in 1999 following the ScotlandAct 1998. The office...
in Scotland in 1979 to decide whether there was a sufficient support for a Scottish Assembly proposed in the ScotlandAct 1978 among the Scottish electorate...
the Scottish Parliament and the Parliament of the United Kingdom since the ScotlandAct 1998. Most executive power is exercised by the Scottish Government...
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