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Order made by the Scottish Ministers, laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 14(2)(b) of the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament within 120 days beginning with the date on which the Order was made, not taking into account periods of dissolution or recess for more than 4 days.
Scottish Statutory Instruments
Criminal Law
Made
at 2.00 p.m. on 25th October 2010
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
25th October 2010
Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)
The Scottish Ministers make the following remedial Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(1) and (3) of the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001(1) (“the 2001 Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
The Scottish Ministers consider the provision made by this remedial Order to be necessary or expedient in consequence of Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003(2), so far as making a person subject to the notification requirements of that Part for an indefinite period has been declared to be incompatible with a Convention right(3).
In accordance with section 12(2) of the 2001 Act they are of the opinion that there are compelling reasons for making a remedial order as distinct from taking any other action.
In accordance with section 14(1) of the 2001 Act it appears to them that, for reasons of urgency, it is necessary to make a remedial order without following the procedure under section 13(2) to (4) of the 2001 Act.
2001 asp 7.
2003 c.42. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 142(6) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
The “Convention rights” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (c.42). In the case of R (on the application of F (by his litigation friend F) and Thompson (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] UKSC 17, judgment 21st April 2010, the Supreme Court made a declaration of incompatibility under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 that the indefinite notification requirements in section 82(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 were incompatible with Article 8 of the Convention because they did not contain any mechanism for the review of the justification for the continuing of the requirements in individual cases.
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