Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021 Explanatory Notes

The Act

3.The Act seeks to increase the protection given by criminal law for retail workers by:

  • creating a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker; and

  • creating a statutory aggravation to that offence where the retail worker is enforcing a statutory age restriction.

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