The Scottish Government

News Archive

• Summary of responses to the consultation document, 'Improving with Experience', on proposals for changes to the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
• Letter from Hugh Henry MSP, Deputy Minister for Justice to Annabel Goldie MSP, Convener, Justice 2 Committee (9 January 2006). Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 - vehicle for legislative changes
• Letter from Deputy Minister for Justice to Justice 2 Committee on 6 December 2005, regarding the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
• Letter from Justice Department to Chief Social Work Officers on 29 September 2005, regarding Interventions under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
• Letter from Deputy Minister for Justice to Convener, Justice 2 Committee on June 2005, regarding Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
• Letter from Deputy Minister for Justice to Justice 2 Committee on 28 October 2004, regarding the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
• A Comparison of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 and the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
• Adults with Incapacity Newsletter -July 2003
• Adults with Incapacity Newsletter - October 2002

Amending Regulations which came into force on 1 February 2006 relating to:

• the expansion of classes of those may countersign applications for authority to intromit with funds
• the frequency of local authority supervisory visits to welfare guardians
  

Updated form for a Report of incapacity to accompany a guardianship application, a renewal of guardianship or an application for an intervention order signed by medical practitioners

• updated form (PDF file, 27kb)