Commentary on provisions of Act Section 2: The Sewel convention
This section inserts subsection (8) into section 28 of the Scotland Act 1998 so it is recognised that, although the sovereignty of the UK Parliament is unchanged by the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, the UK Parliament will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters in Scotland without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.
	This reflects what has come to be known as the Sewel Convention. Lord Sewel indicated in the House of Lords during the passage of the Scotland Bill (H.L. Deb vol. 592 col. 791) that "we would expect a convention to be established that Westminster would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.