Explanatory Notes

Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 5

4 March 2025

The Act – General Interpretative Matters

Crown Application

9.Section 20 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 provides that the Crown will be bound by an Act of the Scottish Parliament or Scottish statutory instrument unless the provision expressly exempts it. This Act applies to the Crown in the same way as it applies to everyone else. The Act makes no change to the application to the Crown of the enactments that it amends.