The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999

Scottish statutory instruments which are required to be laid before the Scottish Parliament

10.—(1) Where any enactment provides, or has the effect of providing, that any Scottish statutory instrument is to be laid before the Scottish Parliament after being made, a copy of the instrument shall, subject to the following provisions, be laid before the Scottish Parliament before the instrument is due to come into force.

(2) Where any enactment provides, or has the effect of providing, that any Scottish statutory instrument is to be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament, a copy of the instrument shall, subject to the following provisions, be laid before the Scottish Parliament not less than 21 days before the instrument is due to come into force.

(3) Where it is necessary that an instrument of a kind mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2) should come into force at any time before–

(a) a copy of it is has been laid before the Scottish Parliament; or

(b) in the case of an instrument mentioned in paragraph (2), the expiry of the period of 21 days mentioned in that paragraph,

the instrument may be made so as to come into force at that time but the responsible authority shall explain to the Presiding Officer why paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, (2) was not complied with.

(4) Every copy of any such instrument as is mentioned in paragraph (1), (2) or (3) sold by, or under the authority of, the Queen’s Printer shall bear on the face of it–

(a) a statement showing the date on which it came or will come into force; and

(b) either a statement showing the date on which such a copy of it was laid before the Scottish Parliament or a statement that such copy is to be laid before the Scottish Parliament.