About the Bill
A Bill for an Act of the Scottish Parliament to create an offence of assaulting, threatening abusing, obstructing or hindering retails workers; and to provide for a statutory aggravation of the offence where the retail worker is enforcing a statutory age restriction.
The Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 10 October 2019. The Bill and the accompanying documents can be found here
Current Status of the Bill
This is a Member's Bill introduced by Daniel Johnson MSP on 10 October 2019
Stage 1
The Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee was designated the lead Committe for Stage 1 Scrutiny.
Financial Memorandum
As with all Bills, the Finance and Constitution Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out its accompyying Financial Memorandum (FM)
The Financial Memorandum (FM) published alongside the Bill sets out estimated costs of introducing the legislation and the additional receipts that are expected to be generated as a results of the changes proposed, Before making a submission, please read our privacy notice about submitting your views to a Committee. This tells you how we process your data.
Please note in most cases your written submission will be published on the Scottish Parliament's website and may be quoted in the Committee's report or in the Committee meetings (which are public and Broadcast).
Please use the questionnaire provided for your submission.
FM Questionnaire
The deadline for responses is Friday 31 January 2020
We we welcome written views in English, Gaelic Scots or any other language. Due to time required to process and analyse evidence, late submissions will only be accepted with the agreement of the Committee Clerk.
Written responses should be sent electronically to [email protected]
Ideally submissions should be no more than four sides of A4.
If you cannot submit electronically, you may send in a hard copy of the written submission.
Please them to:
The Finance and Constitution Committee
Room T3.60
Scottish Parliament
EH99 1SP
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