The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Amendment of Specified Authorities) Order 2011

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Amendment of Specified Authorities) Order 2011 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Amendment of the list of specified authorities

2.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the specified authorities)(1) is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In the list headed “Other Public Bodies”, after “Parole Board for Scotland” insert—

, but Part 1 does not apply in relation to the appointment by the Scottish Ministers of a Lord Commissioner of Justiciary as a member of the Board under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c.9)..

KENNY MACASKILL

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th January 2011