The Scottish Executive is proposing changing legislation to promote the use of electronic government.
It has published a consultation on a legislative order on electronic communication to facilitate delivery of electronic services in Scotland.
To resolve this doubt, and in response to the increasing use made of electronic communications and transactions, several departments in the Scottish Executive have proposed a legislative order to make the necessary changes to legislation.
Among the proposed legislative changes, the executive wants to amend section 85 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to allow certificates of road classification or type to be issued electronically.
This confers a function on an officer of the Scottish Ministers to sign a certificate that a road is of a specified classification or type. Certificates, which are issued to the police at their request, are used as evidence in court proceedings relating to speeding on roads restricted to 30mph.
At present, a paper certificate, signed by a Scottish Executive official, is sent by post to the appropriate police force. The proposed amendment would enable certificates to be issued electronically as an alternative to paper based certificates. In practice, a certificate would only be issued electronically if requested in that format.
The order also proposes changing the 1980 Scottish education (Scotland) Act 1980. At the moment education appeal committees can uphold or overturn the decision of an education authority to refuse to exclude a pupil.
The proposed changes aim to make it possible for an appeal committee to be able to send the notification of its decision electronically.
Quelle: eGov monitor, 28.02.2006
