Part 7: General
Section 58 – Ancillary provisions
144.Section 58 enables the Scottish Ministers to make further provision, by order, which is incidental to or consequent on the Act and to allow transitional or savings provisions as required in implementing the Act’s provisions.
Section 59 – Regulations or orders
145.Subsection (1) provides that powers to make orders or regulations in the Act are to be exercisable by statutory instrument. Subsection (2) provides that except where otherwise provided, the statutory instruments containing such orders or regulations shall be subject to negative procedure in the Scottish Parliament. Subsection (3) provides that regulations under section 55, an order under section 58 which contains provisions which alter the text of an Act and regulations under section 17(3), (4) or (5) are to be the subject of affirmative resolution.
Section 60 – Interpretation
146.Section 60 defines terms used throughout the Act.
Section 61 – Repeals
147.Section 61 introduces schedule 1 (which contains consequential repeals).
Section 62 – Short title and commencement
148.This section provides for the short title of the Act. Further, section 62 allows the Scottish Ministers to bring the provisions of the Act (except sections 52, 59, 60 and 62) into force by order and to set different dates to commence different provisions. The section provides for sections 52, 59, 60 and 62 to come into force on Royal Assent.
Parliamentary History
The following table sets out, for each Stage of the proceedings in the Scottish Parliament on the Act for this Act, the dates on which the proceedings at that Stage took place, the references to the Official Report of those proceedings and the dates on which Committee Reports and other papers relating to the Act were published, and references to those Reports and other papers.
| Proceedings and Reports | Reference |
|---|---|
| Introduction | |
| 3 June 2005 | Act as Introduced (SP Act 42) |
| 17th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) – Preliminary Discussion | 7 June, Col 2019 & Minutes |
| Stage 1 | |
| (a) Health Committee | |
| 19th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 21 June Col 2086 & Minutes |
| 20th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 8 Sep Cols 2091 - 2112 & Minutes |
| 21st Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 13 Sep Cols 2128 - 2164 & Minutes |
| 23rd Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 27 Sep Cols 2223 - 2256 & Minutes |
| 24th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 3 Oct Cols 2261 - 2281 & Minutes |
| 25th meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 25 Oct Cols 2301 - 2327 & Minutes |
| 22 November 2005: | Stage 1 Report |
| 19th Report 2005 (Session 2): Stage 1 Report on Human Tissue (Scotland) Act | |
| (b) Subordinate Legislation Committee | 25 Oct Cols 1239 - 1243 & Minutes |
| 28th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 25 Oct Col 1239 - 1243 & Minutes |
| 29th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 1 Nov Cols 1278 - 1281 & Minutes |
| (c)Finance Committee | |
| 18th Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 8 Sep Cols 2746 - 2747 & Minutes |
| (d) Consideration by Parliament | |
| Stage 1 debate 30 November 2005 | 30 Nov Cols 21232 - 21279 |
| Stage 2 | |
| (a) Health Committee | |
| 32nd Meeting 2005 (Session 2) | 20 December 2005, Cols 2431 - 2458 & Minutes |
| 2nd Meeting 2006 (Session 2) | 17 January 2006, Cols 2475 - 2492 & Minutes |
| Act (as Amended at Stage 2) | Act as amended (SP 42A) |
| Stage 3 | |
| Consideration by Parliament | |
| Stage 3 debate, 2 February 2006 | 2 February 2006, Cols 22960 - 23007 |
| Act passed, 2 February 2006 | Act as passed (SP Act 42B) |
| Royal Assent | |
| 16 March 2006 | Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp4) |
