List of acts of the Scottish Parliament from 2018

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This is a list of acts of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2018. Acts of the Scottish Parliament are enacted by the Scottish Parliament, which has legislative authority over devolved matters in relation to Scotland under the authority of the Scotland Act 1998.[1]

Acts are cited by calendar year, in the same fashion as acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Each act passed in a respective year is numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, following the prefix "asp".[2]

15 acts of the Scottish Parliament were passed in 2018.

indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov.uk, and indicates the location of the original act in the Parliamentary Archives.

Acts of the Scottish Parliament

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Islands (Scotland) Act 2018
2018 asp 12
6 July 2018
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for a national islands plan; to impose duties in relation to island communities on certain public authorities; to make provision about the electoral representation of island communities; and to establish a licensing scheme in respect of marine development adjacent to islands.
2018 asp 13
6 July 2018
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to amend the law on the regulation of social landlords and to reduce the influence of local authorities over registered social landlords.
2018 asp 14
11 July 2018
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to pardon persons convicted of certain historical sexual offences and to provide a process for convictions for those offences to be disregarded.
2018 asp 15
18 December 2018
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to amend the law relating to the extinction of rights and obligations by the passage of time.

Additionally, the

Supreme Court due to the passing of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
, which legislated on many of the same matters and included itself on the list of protected laws that the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate on.

See also

References

  • Current Law Statutes Annotated 2018
  1. ^ Scotland Act 1998, 1998 c. 46, s. 28.
  2. ^ Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, 2010 asp 10, ss. 9 & 38; formerly the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Publication and Interpretation etc. of Acts of the Scottish Parliament) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/1379, art. 5(2) (rev. by art. 8 & s. 55(1) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010).