* Aberdeen Central ( Scottish Parliament constituency )

* Act of the Scottish Parliament, usually written in the lower case as asp.

The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a motion in 1999 calling for the complete removal of any discrimination linked to the monarchy and the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

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Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

He served in Tony Blair's cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1997-1999 and was instrumental in the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

By-elections were also held to the Westminster and Scottish Parliament constituency of Glasgow Anniesland.

The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held on 6 May 1999, with Dewar leading the Scottish Labour Party against their main opponents, the SNP under Alex Salmond.

He was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) for Glasgow Anniesland, becoming both MP and MSP for this constituency.

Although Scottish Labour won more seats than any other party, they did not have a majority in Parliament to allow them to form an Executive without the help of a smaller party.

One of the first scandals to hit the new Scottish Parliament occurred when allegations that the lobbying arm of public relations company Beattie Media had privileged access to ministers were published, prompting Dewar to ask the standards committee to investigate the reports.

Dewar's work for the Scottish Parliament has led him to be called the " Father of the Nation ".

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!

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

Category: Members of the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Reformation took place only days later when the Scottish Parliament abolished the Roman Catholic religion and outlawed the Mass.

After the Restoration, Charles ' Scottish affairs were managed by senior noblemen, the most prominent of whom was John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, his Secretary of State and High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.

As the Secretary of War told Parliament in 1751, " I am for having always in our army as many Scottish soldiers as possible ... because they are generally more hardy and less mutinous ".

A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.

Brodie-Innes assumed command of the English and Scottish temples, while Mathers concentrated on building up his Ahathoor temple and extending his American connections.

Scott is also commemorated on a stone slab in Makars ' Court, outside The Writers ' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, along with other prominent Scottish writers ; quotes from his work are also visible on the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood.

The Scottish Café's building now houses the Universal Bank in Lviv.

The Priory, said to have been a building of ' wondrous cost and greatness ' was sacked during the Scottish Protestant Revolution in 1559, and swiftly fell into decay.

The building is now closed for demolition and replacement by a new design, inspired by traditional Scottish buildings, by Reiach and Hall Architects.

In 1912 the RSA moved into the Royal Institution building, which remains known as the Royal Scottish Academy Building.

When it re-opened, the gallery concentrated on building its permanent collection of Scottish and European art for the nation.

Instead there was a wave of building or adapting Calvinist " temples ", though in the end none of these were to remain in use by the following year, and their layouts, which seem to have echoed early Swiss and Scottish Calvinist designs, are now largely unknown.

The public entrance of the distinctive Scottish Parliament building, opened in October 2004.

The factory building of Scottish Aviation, which still exists today, was formerly the Palace of Engineering at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.

Sir Arthur Chichester was appointed by the Earl of Essex to govern the castle and town in 1599 and was responsible for the plantation of English and Scottish peoples in the town, as well as the building of the town wall.

William Adam, a famous Scottish architect, designed the tollbooth in the centre of town, which is the only surviving building of this type designed by him.

The Scottish Ski Club have a building close to the middle station.

In the ensuing wars of Scottish Independence castle building in Scotland altered path, turning away from building larger, more conventional castles with curtain walls.

In the north of England improvements in the security of the Scottish border, and the rise of major noble families such as the Percies and the Nevilles, encouraged a surge in castle building at the end of the 14th century.

A tower house would typically be a tall, square, stone-built, crenelated building ; Scottish and Ulster tower houses were often also surrounded by a barmkyn or bawn, a walled courtyard designed to hold valuable animals securely, but not necessarily intended for serious defence.

Unfortunately, the plan to connect Ocean Terminal and the Scottish Executive building area by the new Edinburgh Trams by the Port of Leith tram stop has been shelved after dispute between Edinburgh Council and the contractors.

It has a very distinctive building form, typical of many Scottish fishing villages, with a ' forestair ' leading to accommodation at first floor level.

The building of the dam wall was undertaken by the Scottish company of Richard Baillie and Sons.

In his capacity as Warden-General of the Scottish Marches, Northumberland arranged for the building of a new Italianate fortress at Berwick-upon-Tweed.