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The following table
records the number of Statutory Instruments which have been made by
the Scottish Administration and registered by the Scottish Statutory
Instruments Registrar since devolution in 1999:
| Year |
Scottish
Statutory
Instruments |
| 1999 |
204 |
| 2000 |
454 |
| 2001 |
494* |
| 2002 |
575 |
|
*The
number of Scottish Statutory Instruments registered during 2001 included
65 instruments which related directly to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth
Disease.
Subjects covered by Scottish Statutory Instruments
The following tables record the subjects to which the Scottish Statutory
Instruments made during 2001 and 2002 relate and the number of instruments
covering each subject. The total will be greater than the total number
of Scottish Statutory Instruments as some instruments will have carried
a range of Subject Headings.
General Scottish Statutory Instruments
|
Subject
|
2001
|
2002
|
|
Acquisition of Land
|
1
|
0
|
|
Adults with Incapacity
|
7
|
11
|
|
Agriculture
|
31
|
16
|
|
Animals
|
79
|
23
|
|
Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
|
2
|
1
|
|
Building and Buildings
|
1
|
1
|
|
Children and Young Persons
|
7
|
4
|
|
Civil Defence
|
1
|
0
|
|
Clean Air
|
2
|
1
|
|
Consumer Protection
|
1
|
1
|
|
Contracts
|
0
|
3
|
|
Contamination of Food
|
1
|
0
|
|
Council Tax
|
0
|
2
|
|
Countryside
|
0
|
4
|
|
Court of Session
|
8
|
8
|
|
Criminal Law
|
5
|
3
|
|
Crofters, Cottars and Small Landholders
|
1
|
0
|
|
Damages
|
0
|
1
|
|
Defamation
|
1
|
0
|
|
District Courts
|
1
|
0
|
|
Education
|
18
|
12
|
|
Electricity
|
1
|
5
|
|
Employment & Training
|
1
|
0
|
|
Energy Conservation
|
1
|
0
|
|
Enforcement
|
1
|
0
|
|
Environmental Protection
|
2
|
7
|
|
European Communities
|
2
|
0
|
|
Family Law
|
1
|
0
|
|
Fire Services
|
0
|
2
|
|
Food
|
11
|
24
|
|
Freedom of Information
|
0
|
1
|
|
Harbours, Docks, Piers and Ferries
|
2
|
0
|
|
High Court of Justiciary
|
1
|
4
|
|
Housing
|
9
|
24
|
|
International Criminal Court
|
1
|
0
|
|
Investigatory Powers
|
1
|
3
|
|
Land Drainage
|
0
|
1
|
|
Land Registration
|
1
|
1
|
|
Legal Aid and Advice
|
13
|
16
|
|
Legal Services
|
0
|
1
|
|
Licences and Licensing
|
0
|
3
|
|
Licensing (Liquor)
|
1
|
0
|
|
Local Government
|
7
|
8
|
|
Marriage
|
0
|
2
|
|
National Assistance Services
|
4
|
1
|
|
National Health Service
|
45
|
18
|
|
Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors
|
2
|
2
|
|
Partnership
|
1
|
0
|
|
Pensions
|
7
|
2
|
|
Pesticides
|
5
|
5
|
|
Plant Health
|
3
|
4
|
|
Police
|
2
|
9
|
|
Prisons
|
2
|
2
|
|
Proceeds of Crime
|
0
|
1
|
|
Protection of Wrecks
|
2
|
0
|
|
Public Finance and Accountability
|
3
|
7
|
|
Public Health
|
51
|
51
|
|
Public Passenger Transport
|
3
|
1
|
|
Race Relations
|
0
|
1
|
|
Rating and Valuation
|
3
|
5
|
|
Registers and Records
|
1
|
0
|
|
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages etc
|
0
|
2
|
|
Representation of the People
|
0
|
3
|
|
Residential and Other Establishments
|
1
|
0
|
|
Rivers
|
2
|
3
|
|
Road Traffic
|
1
|
14
|
|
Roads and Bridges
|
0
|
4
|
|
Scottish Public Service Ombudsman
|
0
|
3
|
|
Sea Fisheries
|
8
|
6
|
|
Seeds
|
0
|
3
|
|
Shellfish
|
0
|
1
|
|
Sheriff Court
|
9
|
20
|
|
Social Care
|
3
|
20
|
|
Social Work
|
1
|
0
|
|
Sports Grounds and Sporting Events
|
1
|
1
|
|
Terms and Conditions of Employment
|
2
|
0
|
|
Town and Country Planning
|
3
|
2
|
|
Transport
|
2
|
8
|
|
Water
|
0
|
4
|
|
Water Supply
|
4
|
6
|
|
Wildlife
|
1
|
0
|
|
Young Offenders Institutions
|
0
|
1
|
|
Local Scottish Statutory
Instruments made
|
Subject
|
2001
|
2002
|
|
Railways,
Tramways and Trolley Vehicles
|
0
|
1
|
|
Rivers
and Inland Waterways
|
1
|
2
|
|
Roads,
Bridges, Road Traffic and Rights of Way
|
95
|
181
|
|
Shipping,
Harbours, Docks, Ports etc
|
1
|
6
|
|
Town
and Country Planning, Open Spaces, Access to Countryside
|
1
|
0
|
|
Water
Supply
|
1
|
0
|
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Similar information
regarding United Kingdom Statutory Instruments can be found on the United
Kingdom Legislation website.
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