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The Act creates the Scottish Parliament, sets out how Members of the Scottish Parliament are to be elected, makes some provision about the internal operation of the Parliament ( although many issues are left for the Parliament itself to regulate ) and sets out the process for the Parliament to consider and pass Bills which become Acts of the Scottish Parliament once they receive Royal Assent.
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* 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Among other arguments, supporters hypothesize that the Act creates additional legal risks for employers who then quietly avoid hiring people with disabilities to avoid this risk.
The Criminal Code Act ( chapter 29 of Part V ; sections 351 to 365 ) creates a number of offences of assault.
Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 creates the offence of assault, and section 3 of that Act creates the offence of assault causing harm.
The Offences against the Person Act 1861 creates the offences of:
The Criminal Justice ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1968 creates the offences of:
9 ( 1 )( c ) of the Radiocommunication Act creates a prohibition against all decoding of encrypted programming signals, followed by an exception where authorization is received from the person holding the lawful right in Canada to transmit and authorize decoding of the signal.
Under the Contempt of Court Act 1981 it is criminal contempt of court to publish anything which creates a real risk that the course of justice in proceedings may be seriously impaired.
* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).
* 1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Section 24AA of the Crimes Act 1914 creates the related offence of treachery.
Section 12 of the Crimes Act 1900 ( NSW ) creates an offence which is derived from section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848:
* May 5 – The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
* The Regulating Act creates the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory controlled by The British East India Company.
The Act creates a system of government with a separate executive drawn from and accountable to the legislature.
* June 27, 1934-The National Housing Act creates the Federal Housing Administration, which helps provide mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders.
* September 1, 1937-Housing Act of 1937 creates the United States Housing Authority, which helps enact slum-clearance projects and construction of low-rent housing
* October 1992 – The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 codifies within its language the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 that creates the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, and mandates HUD to set goals for lower income and underserved housing areas for the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
* Scotland: the Land Reform ( Scotland ) Act 2003 ends the historic legacy of feudal law and creates a framework for rural or croft communities right to buy land in their area.
The Act also creates the post of the Director of Service Prosecutions.
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* 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.
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.
In Scottish heraldry, the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Act of 1672 is empowered to grant arms to " vertuous and well deserving persons.
However, the Scottish counterpart, the Act of Security, prohibited a Roman Catholic successor, leaving open the possibility that the crowns would diverge.
The Scottish Reform Act 1832 increased the number of Scottish MPs and significantly widened the franchise to include more of the middle classes.
In Britain in 1683, the English Bill of Rights ( or " An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown ") and the Scottish Claim of Right each made illegal a range of oppressive governmental actions.
This situation persisted until 1939, when Scottish marriage laws were reformed by the Marriage ( Scotland ) Act 1939 and handfasting was no longer recognized.
* 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
The Militia Act of 1797 empowered Scottish Lord Lieutenants to raise and command militia regiments in each of the " Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places " under their jurisdiction.
Patrick Abercromby ( 1656 – c. 1716 ), Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII ( II of England ) and his fervent opposition to the Act of Union between Scotland and England.
A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.
The Scottish Government is responsible for all issues that are not explicitly reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster, by the Scotland Act ; including NHS Scotland, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.
The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.
The current Scottish Parliament was established by the Scotland Act 1998 and its first meeting as a devolved legislature was on 12 May 1999.
In 1823, the UK passed the Excise Act, legalizing the distillation ( for a fee ), and this put a practical end to the large-scale production of Scottish moonshine.
His reign was the second longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707, ( James VI's was the longest 1567 – 1625 ).
* 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.
* January 16 – The Treaty ( or Act ) of Union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England is ratified by the Scottish Parliament.
* The Claim of Right Act 1689, an Act of the Parliament of Scotland that enacted the same principles as the Bill of Rights in England into Scottish law
These were designated as such under the National Parks ( Scotland ) Act 2000 which was an early piece of legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament not long after its creation in 1999.
However, reforms in those parts of the United Kingdom were carried out by the Scottish Reform Act and the Irish Reform Act.
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