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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.
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* Act of the Scottish Parliament, usually written in the lower case as asp.
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 ".
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The Scottish National Party's conference voted unanimously on 27 October 2007 for a policy of reducing the voting age to 16, as well as in favour of a campaign for the necessary power to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
On 15 October 2008, five Scottish judges decided unanimously to reject a submission by the Crown Office to the effect that the scope of Megrahi's second appeal should be limited to the specific grounds of appeal that were identified by the SCCRC in June 2007.
In 1901, he was unanimously elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church and served in that capacity for three years until his retirement.
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Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.
This little band passed over to Britain, landing probably on the Scottish coast.
Sharp sought " old world " English and Scottish ballads passed down to the region's inhabitants from their British ancestors.
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.
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.
* 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.
* The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish highlands.
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.
In 1703, the Estates passed a bill that declared that their selection for Queen Anne's successor would not be the same individual as the successor to the English throne, unless England granted full freedom of trade to Scottish merchants in England and its colonies.
In response the English Parliament passed measures which threatened to restrict Anglo-Scottish trade and cripple the Scottish economy if the Estates did not agree to the Hanoverian succession.
Many were killed by the pursuing Scottish army or by the inhabitants of the countryside that they passed through.
Lawrence's friends asked the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell to write the artist's biography, but he passed the task on to D. E.
The castle passed into the hands of the Balliol family ( of which the Scottish king, John Balliol, was the most important member ) and then into the possession of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
After becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 during Grouping, ownership passed to British Railways ( BR ) following nationalisation in 1948.
In 1962, the British Transport Commission was wound up, and control passed to the British Waterways Board ; subsequently Scottish Canals took control.
In the Scottish Reformation schools such as the Choir School of Glasgow Cathedral ( founded 1124 ) and the Grammar School of the Church of Edinburgh ( 1128 ) passed from church control to burgh councils, and the burghs also founded new schools.
Since decisions made at Holyrood concerning major constitutional issues are not binding on Westminster, an independence bill passed in the Scottish Parliament would not be legally valid unless endorsed by Westminster.
The Labour government passed laws in 1998 to establish a Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, the first elections for these were held in 1999.
The heirship to the English and Scottish thrones passed to his younger brother Charles.
Thereafter, the heir-apparent to the Scottish Crown held the dukedom ; an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 1469 confirmed this pattern of succession.
A passionate appeal by Stephen Maxwell failed to get a motion critical of private industry passed at the 1981 conference, but conference did vote by a big majority for a motion calling for " a real Scottish resistance " including " political strikes and civil disobedience on a mass scale " after a speech by Sillars.
Upon deregulation of the United Kingdom ’ s electricity generation market it passed to the state-owned Scottish Nuclear, privatised as part of British Energy which was sold to the French company EDF in January 2009, and incorporated in the latter's UK subsidiary EDF Energy.
A Legislative Consent Motion ( also known as a Sewel motion ) is a motion passed by the Scottish Parliament, in which it agrees that the Parliament of the United Kingdom may pass legislation on a devolved issue extending to Scotland, over which the Scottish Parliament has regular legislative authority.
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