* 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 ".

The new Scottish Parliament Building, adjacent to Holyrood House in Edinburgh, opened in 2004.

Lutyens ' upturned herring buses near the foreshore provided the inspiration for Spanish architect Enric Miralles ' Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Parliament Building in Holyrood, Edinburgh | Holyrood, Edinburgh, seat of the Scottish Parliament.

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

In the early 21st century, the Playfair Project saw the renovation of the Royal Scottish Academy Building and the construction of an underground connecting space between the Gallery and the Academy Building.

At the heart of the National Gallery's collection is a group of paintings transferred from the Royal Scottish Academy Building.

Modern buildings based upon the Mausoleum of Mausolus include the National Newark Building in Newark, New Jersey, Grant's Tomb and 26 Broadway in New York City, Los Angeles City Hall, the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia, the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury in London, the Indiana War Memorial ( and in turn Chase Tower ) in Indianapolis, the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction's headquarters, the House of the Temple in Washington D. C., the Civil Courts Building in St. Louis, and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh.

In 1993 the Pathfoot Building was selected by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of sixty key Scottish monuments of the post-war era.

It continues downhill past Moray House ( now the main academic offices of Moray House School of Education of the University of Edinburgh ), the old Canongate Tolbooth ( now a museum of social history called The People's Story ), the Kirk of the Canongate ( the Canongate's parish church ) and the new Scottish Parliament Building to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey.

File: Flags outside Parliament. jpg | The Flag of the United Kingdom, Flag of Scotland and Flag of Europe at the Scottish Parliament Building.

In the UK, since the 1990s sprinklers have gained recognition within the Building Regulations ( England and Wales ) and Scottish Building Standards and under certain circumstances, the presence of sprinkler systems is deemed to provide a form of alternative compliance to some parts of the codes.

* Holyrood, a metonym for the Scottish Parliament, or the Scottish Parliament Building, so named because they are in Holyrood, Edinburgh

Building on his cult Scottish following, they broke Connolly throughout the UK – an unusual development for a regional comedian.

The First Minister also has an office in the Scottish Parliament Building.

* Queensberry House-bought in 1689 by William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, now incorporated into the new Scottish Parliament Building and housing the office of the Presiding Officer

In May 1999, at the first sitting of the devolved Scottish Parliament, in October 2004 at the opening of the new Scottish Parliament Building, and at subsequent opening ceremonies of each new Session of the Scottish Parliament the Crown of Scotland has been present alongside the Monarch.

The 2005 Stirling Prize shortlist contained a number of buildings ( most notably Zaha Hadid's BMW Central Building and the eventual winner, Enric Miralles ' Scottish Parliament Building ) featuring significant amounts of exposed concrete, something that would have been regarded as aesthetically unacceptable when the prize was inaugurated nine years previously.

Loch (, also the non-standard but common ), is the Scottish Gaelic and Irish word for a lake or a sea inlet.

The aos sí (, "", older form aes sídhe ), "") is the Irish Gaelic term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology comparable to the fairies or elves.

Flower of Scotland (, ) is a Scottish song, used frequently at special occasions and sporting events.

Cardonald (, ) is an outlying suburb of the Scottish city of Glasgow.

The Battle of the Boyne (, ) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thronesthe Catholic King James and the Protestant King William ( who had deposed James in 1688 ) across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland.

In Irish and Scottish mythology, the (, Irish plural, Scottish Gaelic plural ), also known as the Cailleach Bheur, is a divine hag, a creatrix, and possibly an ancestral deity or deified ancestor.

Culhwch (, with the final consonant of Scottish " loch "), in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen ( the earliest of the medieval Welsh tales usually, but erroneously, referred to collectively as the Mabinogion ).

The Church of Scotland, (, ) known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation.

Scottish independence (, ) is a political aim of political parties, advocacy groups and individuals for Scotland, which is a country of the United Kingdom, to once again become an independent sovereign state.

The Scottish Government (, ) is the executive branch of the devolved government of Scotland.

In Irish and Scottish folklore, the Sluagh (, ) were the spirits of the restless dead.

The Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament (, ) is the speaker of the Scottish Parliament, elected by the Members of the Scottish Parliament, by means of an exhaustive ballot.

Eyemouth (, ) is a small town and civil parish in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Banchory (, from Scottish Gaelic: Beannchar ) is a burgh or town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Berwick have never played in the Scottish top flight, so questions of potential competition in European tournaments have not arisen (, by contrast, regularly contends for the Republic of Ireland league title and represents the country in UEFA competitions, whereas FC Vaduz regularly represents Liechtenstein although the club plays in the Swiss Football League ).

Rona (, ) is a remote Scottish island in the North Atlantic.

Kerrera (, ) is an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, close to the town of Oban.

Rona (, ), sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona, is a small island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

Her Majesty's Advocate ( or when the monarch is male His Majesty's Advocate ), known as the Lord Advocate (, ), is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament.

The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word " Russia " (, Rossiya ) and not from Scottish " Ross ".

A blackhouse (, ; ) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, and Ireland.