Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Explanatory Notes

1. Introduction

2. The Act

3. Commentary on Sections

   1. Section 1 – Assaulting or impeding certain providers of emergency services

   2. Section 2 – Assaulting or impeding certain emergency workers responding to emergency circumstances

   3. Section 3 – Assaulting or impeding persons assisting emergency workers

   4. Section 4 – Provisions supplementary to section 1 to 3

   5. Section 5 – Assaulting or impeding health workers in hospital premises

   6. Section 6 – Penalties

   7. Section 7 – Saving for certain other offences

   8. Section 8 – Power to modify

4. Statistics

5. Parliamentary History of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005