Legislation – Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
Main provisions

1 Meaning of “coronavirus”

2 Protection of the individual

3 Operation of the justice system

4 Reports, accounts and other documents

5 Other measures in response to coronavirus

PART 2
Supporting and final provisions

6 Advancement of equality and non-discrimination

7 Subordinate legislation making powers

8 Power to suspend and revive provisions

9 Expiry

10 Power to bring forward expiry

11 Power to amend Act in consequence of amendments to subordinate legislation

12 Reports by the Scottish Ministers on the status of provisions

13 Reviews: information about domestic abuse

14 Reports by the Scottish Ministers on coronavirus-related instruments

15 Ancillary provision

16 Commencement

17 Short title

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Protection of the individual

SCHEDULE 2 Operation of the justice system

SCHEDULE 3 Reports, accounts and other documents

SCHEDULE 4 Other measures in response to coronavirus

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SCHEDULE 1Protection of the individual

PART 4Social care staff support fund

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(1)

F2The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after Royal Assent, establish and maintain a fund to be known as the “social care staff support fund”.

(2)

F2The Scottish Ministers must use the fund to provide financial assistance to workers in the social care sector—

(a)

whose ability to undertake contracted health and care work is, or has been, restricted, for a reason relating to coronavirus (such as, but not limited to, inability to work in multiple or linked workplaces), and

(b)

as a result of that restriction, whose income is reduced and consequently would experience, or are experiencing, financial hardship during the period when Part 1 is in force.

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(7)

F2In sub-paragraph (2), the “social care sector” includes any care service within the meaning given in section 47 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.