United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024

42 Interpretation S

(1) In this Act—

• “compatibility question” has the meaning given in section 31,

• “incompatibility declarator” has the meaning given in section 26(2),

• “public authority” has the meaning given in section 6(5) and (8),

• “remedial regulations” has the meaning given in section 39(1),

• “strike down declarator” has the meaning given in section 25(2),

• “Supreme Court” means the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,

• “the Convention” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the first optional protocol” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the second optional protocol” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the UNCRC requirements” has the meaning given in section 1(2),

• “UNCRC compatibility issue” has the meaning given in section 288AB(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a function conferred by words inserted by one enactment into another enactment (“the modified enactment”) is to be regarded as conferred only by the modified enactment.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 42 in force at 17.1.2024, see s. 47(1)