Scottish Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 287
Local Government
The Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Amendment Order 2009
Made
30th July 2009
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
5th August 2009
Coming into force
9th October 2009
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(1) of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Amendment Order 2009 and comes into force on 9th October 2009.
Amendment of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Order 2006
2. The list of Scottish public authorities(2) in the Schedule to the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Order 2006(3) is amended by inserting at the appropriate place, “Public Transport Users’ Committee for Scotland(4)”.
JOHN SWINNEY
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th July 2009
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the list of Scottish public authorities specified for the purposes of Part 4 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000. In terms of Part 4 of that Act the Scottish Ministers require to issue a code or codes of conduct in respect of the conduct of members of the specified Scottish public authorities.
See section 126(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) for the definition of “Scottish public authority”.
Established by the Public Transport Users’ Committee for Scotland Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/250) on 1st January 2007.