Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002

Supplementary

20 Interpretation

In this Act—

• “acting Commissioner” shall be construed in accordance with section 2(1);

• “admissible complaint” shall be construed in accordance with section 6(2) and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

• “Code of Conduct” means the Code of Conduct for members of the Parliament made under the standing orders;

• “Commissioner” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(1);

• “conduct” includes any act or failure to act and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

• “excluded complaint” shall be construed in accordance with section 3(2);

• “first test”, “second test” and “third test” shall be construed in accordance with section 6(3);

• “member of the Parliament” includes—

  (a)

  a Scottish Law Officer even where that officer is not a member of the Parliament; and

  (b)

  except for the purposes of section 1(3), a former member of the Parliament and a former Scottish Law Officer;

• “the Parliament” includes any committee of the Parliament;

• “Parliamentary corporation” means the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body;

• “relevant provision” shall be construed in accordance with section 3(3);

• “relevant time” shall be construed in accordance with section 3(4):

• “Scotland Act” means the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46);

• “Scottish Law Officer” means the Lord Advocate or the Solicitor General for Scotland;

• “specified requirement” shall be construed in accordance with section 6(5);

• “Stage 1” and “Stage 2” shall be construed in accordance with section 5(1);

• “stage of an investigation” shall be construed in accordance with section 5(1); and

• “standing orders” means the standing orders of the Parliament.

21 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002.

(2) This Act comes into force as follows—

(a) this section and sections 1 and 20 and the schedule shall come into force the day after the date of Royal Assent; and

(b) the remainder of this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of six months beginning with the date of Royal Assent.