Explanatory Notes

Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000

2000 asp 7

24 July 2000

Explanatory Notes

The Act

Part 2 .Enforcement
Section 20 Duty of Commission to provide information

43.This section places a duty on the Commission to give written notice to a councillor or member of a devolved public body, whose alleged contravention of the councillors’ or members’ codes is to be the subject of a hearing, of the procedure to be followed at the hearing and the sanctions which may be imposed following a finding of contravention.