Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005

  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