Emergency Workers (Scotland) Bill : as amended at stage 2 /
McCallum, Frazer,author.
Scotland.Parliament.Information Centre.
Scotland.Parliament.Corporate Body,issuing body.
"The Emergency Workers (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Parliament on 22 March 2004. The Policy Memorandum published along with the Bill stated that the Bill’s policy objective is “to create a specific offence of attacking an emergency worker, or someone assisting an emergency worker, who is responding to emergency circumstances” (para 2). Amendments agreed to at Stage 2 make a number of important changes to the Bill. These include some changes aimed at clarifying the evidential requirements for an offence and others which extend the categories of worker covered. However, this briefing focuses on significant changes affecting the need for a worker to be involved in responding to emergency circumstances before the offences in the Bill apply. The Parliament is due to debate the Bill at Stage 3 on 22 December 2004.An earlier SPICe briefing on the Bill as introduced, including consideration of the background to the Bill and of existing offences which already cover some of the behaviour which would be covered by the offences in the Bill, was published in April (McCallum 2004)."
"04/91".
"17 December 2004".
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