1. Review of Child Care Law in Scotland (HMSO).
2. Something similar happened in England and Wales where separate projects by the English Law Commission and the relevant government department were eventually brought together in the Children Act 1989.
3. This is the very useful Parliamentary procedure whereby a number of separate statutes dealing with one subject matter can be consolidated into a single Act, without the consolidating Bill having to go through all the Parliamentary stages which an ordinary Bill has to go through.