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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2024 No. 13 (C. 2)
Human Rights
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement) Regulations 2024
Made
17th January 2024
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
18th January 2024
Coming into force
31st January 2024
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 47(2)(b) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024( 1).
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 31 January 2024.
Appointed day
2. 31 January 2024 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024—
(a) section 1 (meaning of “ the UNCRC requirements” and related expressions),
(b) section 2 (meaning of references to States Parties and related expressions in the UNCRC requirements),
(c) section 13 (guidance on Part 2),
(d) section 20 (guidance on section 18),
(e) section 44 (rules of court),
(f) the schedule (the UNCRC requirements).
NATALIE DON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
17th January 2024
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring sections 1, 2, 13, 20, and 44 and the schedule of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (“ the Act”) into force on 31 January 2024.
The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 16 January 2024. Sections 42, 45, 46, 47 and 48 came into force on the following day.