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Parliamentary Report

October 2014–January 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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Extract

As noted in the report for June–September 2014, in the wake of the ‘No’ vote in the Scottish independence referendum the Prime Minister appointed Lord Smith of Kelvin to lead a commission to put together an agreed package for further devolution. In October the Westminster Government issued The parties' published proposals on further devolution for Scotland (Cm 8946) and in January followed this with the necessary draft legislation: Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement. Perhaps the most important outcome for the Churches of the inter-party settlement is that the Equality Act 2010 will remain a matter reserved to Westminster.

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Parliamentary Report
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 2015 , pp. 221 - 227
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2015 

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References

1 Available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397079/Scotland_EnduringSettlement_acc.pdf>, accessed 25 January 2015.

2 Available at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2014-2015/0006/15006.pdf>, accessed 25 January 2015.

3 Available at <http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_Bills/Assisted%20Suicide/b40s4-introd.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.

4 If the existing licence is not required under the new system, it simply ceases to have effect.

5 Available at <http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2015/01/2869/2>, accessed 30 January 2015.

6 The latest version is available at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2014-2015/0084/15084.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.

7 Available at <https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations/results/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.

8 Why weddings in the open air should be a particular problem is beyond the comprehension of this correspondent, who was married in a civil ceremony in Scotland out of doors – and, as it happens, in light drizzle.

9 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2014/2/pdfs/ukcm_20140002_en.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.

10 Available at <https://www.churchofengland.org/media/2101062/gs%201926d%20-%20amending%20canon%20no.33.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.

11 The latest version is available at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2014-2015/0087/15087.pdf>, accessed 30 January 2015.