Introduction
1.These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Scottish Government in order to assist the reader of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019. They do not form part of the Act and have not been endorsed by the Parliament.
2.These Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Act. So where a section or schedule, or a part of a section or schedule, does not seem to require any explanation or comment, none is given.
3.It is worth noting that the freestanding provisions of the Act are subject to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (ILRA) which, among other things, provides default definition for certain expressions (such as ‘person’) and default rules for common situations (such as when something which is sent by post is deemed to arrive).
4.Where the Act is amending Acts of the Scottish Parliament passed between the start of devolution in 1999 and 4 June 2010 (when Part 1 of ILRA came into force), the inserted (and amended) text is subject to the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Publication and Interpretation etc. of Acts of the Scottish Parliament) Order 1999(1). Where the Act is amending Acts passed by the UK Parliament, the inserted (and amended) text is subject to the Interpretation Act 1978. These Acts are broadly similar to ILRA, but there are differences which were highlighted in the explanatory notes which accompanied ILRA.