It is a separate offence to assault on a constable in the execution of his duty, under section 41 of the Police ( Scotland ) Act 1967 which provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

The Act of Settlement was, in many ways, the major cause of the union of Scotland with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

However, the limitations of the 1844 Act only affected banks in England and Wales, and today three commercial banks in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland continue to issue their own sterling banknotes, regulated by the Bank of England.

In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( including the English Civil War ), the Church of Scotland was re-established on a presbyterian basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of Episcopalians were allowed to hold onto their benefices.

In the Education ( Scotland ) Act, it is only necessary to produce a register as proof of lack of attendance.

The double jeopardy rule no longer applies absolutely in Scotland since the Double Jeopardy ( Scotland ) Act 2011 came into force on 28 November 2011.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

He was able to start the devolution process, and worked endlessly on creating the Scotland Act, popularly known as Smith's " unfinished business ".

On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: " There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament ", a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said, " I like that!

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

Section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998, for example, specifically refers to ordinary elections to the Scottish Parliament as general elections.

Scotland advanced markedly in educational terms during the fifteenth century with the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413, the University of Glasgow in 1450 and the University of Aberdeen in 1495, and with the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.

The Act for the Settling of Schools established a parish-based system of public education throughout Scotland.

It was quieted when the government stepped in passing the Crofters ' Holdings ( Scotland ) Act, 1886 to reduce rents, guarantee fixity of tenure, and break up large estates to provide crofts for the homeless.

* McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger ( 2007 ) Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

" BBC Scotland broadcast the video on 29 May 2007.

* Queen's Dock, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, Scotland ( 2004 – 2007 )

A 2007 survey found that residents of Scotland and Northern Ireland tend to dislike RP.

" A Brief History of Scotland Yard ", Smithsonian. com, September 28, 2007.

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP became the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, governing as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland.

* Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba, 789 – 1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

In June 2007, Alex Salmond, the first Minister of Scotland, backed a campaign to confer city status on Perth, saying it should be granted " at the next commemorative opportunity ".

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

On 10 January 2007, former boss Walter Smith resigned from his post as Scotland manager to return to the Ibrox helm, with Ally McCoist as assistant manager.

The hand, manufactured by " Touch Bionics " of Scotland ( a Livingston company ), went on sale on 18 July 2007 in Britain.

It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007 ; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007 ; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006 ; the fifth most popular name for girls born in Sweden in 2007 ; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Belgium in 2006 ; the 53rd most popular name for girls born in Norway in 2007 ; the 70th most popular name for girls born in Hungary in 2005 ; the 19th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2006 ; the 9th most popular name for girls born in Germany in 2005 and the 1st most popular name in Austria.

* In 2007, David Greig wrote an adaptation of The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus, with ten soul-singing followers in place of the traditional Greek chorus.

A less thorough survey in 2007 showed that in addition to large numbers of territories in the Scottish Highlands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides, there were a handful of birds in southern Scotland and northern England.

For May 2007 only, Andrew became entitled to be called ( albeit academically ) His Grace The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Today, it features on the 2007 series of £ 5 notes issued by the Bank of Scotland, alongside the Brig o ' Doon.

* Charles Forte, Baron Forte ( 1908 – 2007 ), the hotelier, worked in an Italian cafe in the High Street, on his arrival in Scotland from Italy.

Following a campaign and concerns over animal welfare, this cull was called off in 2007, instead hedgehogs are being captured and translocated to mainland Scotland.

In 2007 Beverley was named as the best place to live in the United Kingdom in an " Affordable Affluence " study by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

However, on 31 May 2007, the Scottish Parliament voted to scrap tolls on all bridges in Scotland.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

His reign saw what has been characterised as a " Davidian Revolution ", by which native institutions and personnel were replaced by English and French ones, underpinning the development of later Medieval Scotland.

After Orkney and Shetland were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468 / 69 it was gradually replaced by Scots.

The new tax replaced the rates in Scotland from the start of the 1989 / 90 financial year, and in England and Wales from the start of the 1990 / 91 financial year.

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

In Scotland county-sized local government was replaced by larger regions, which lasted until 1996.

Until 1996 two-tier systems existed in Scotland and Wales, but these have now been replaced by systems based on a single-tier of local government with some functions shared between groups of adjacent authorities.

They also have rights of audience in the District Courts ( the lowest criminal court in Scotland ), although these are now being replaced by Justice of the Peace Courts, in which a solicitor also has a full right of audience.

" He suggests that English heritage be replaced " with a Cornish Heritage group, just like they have for instance in Wales and Scotland.

Stewart left the band when he was offered the chance to manage a drum store in Scotland before the following live tour, to be replaced by French Canadian Denis Clement on Drums.

In the background can be seen the spire of the old St Andrew's Cathedral: the rest of the building burned down in 1962 and was replaced with a new church on the same site. The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland.

The castle-guard system faded into abeyance in England, being replaced by financial rents, although it continued in the Welsh Marches well into the 13th century and saw some limited use during Edward I's occupation of Scotland in the early 14th century.

( Scotland ) Act 1994, which replaced the regions and districts with unitary council areas.

After Moray's death, on 20 July 1332, he was replaced by Donald, Earl of Mar, elected by an assembly of the magnates of Scotland at Perth, 2 August 1332.

* Anne of Great Britain, ( 1702 – 1714 ) Following the Act of Union with Scotland, Anne's personal union of the Scottish and English crowns was replaced by a political union.

The early Lichtenstein B was replaced by the Lichtenstein C-1, but when a German night fighter defected and landed in Scotland in April 1943, it was quickly jammed.

Common law crimes in Scotland are gradually being replaced by statutes.

It was replaced by large areas of blanket bog in Western Scotland and Ireland though the reasons for its decline nor its extinction in England are clear, but it may have been influenced by human activities.

This document remains the subordinate standard of the Church of Scotland, but was replaced in England after the Restoration.

The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 replaced the counties with regions, and each region was to have one or more lord-lieutenants appointed.

BBC One Scotland variations include the soap opera River City and the football programme Sportscene, the inclusion of which causes network programming to be displaced or replaced.

Bailies served as burgh magistrates in the system of local government in Scotland before 1975 when the system of burghs and counties was replaced by a two-tier system of regional councils and district councils.

Under the new arrangements the bailies were abolished and replaced by Justices of the Peace serving in the District Courts of Scotland, these posts no longer holding any authority within the local authority as an administrative body.

The role of Auditor General for Scotland is held by Caroline Gardner who replaced the first Auditor General, Robert Black, in July 2012.