Sentence examples for minimum pricing legislation from inspiring English sources
When the Scottish government tried to tackle binge drinking and its associated ills with similar minimum pricing legislation last year, the Liberals Democrats and Conservatives opposed it.
Milton told Westminster's science and technology committee last October that minimum pricing legislation was likely to contravene European free trade legislation: "Our advice is that, in itself, it is probably illegal, as it contravenes European free trade legislation.
A judicial review of the Scottish government's minimum pricing legislation is scheduled to begin at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
The Scotch Whisky Association has sought a judicial review of the minimum pricing legislation in the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
In a letter to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, Ms Davidson said that her party accepted that the proposed minimum pricing legislation would "command greater authority if given the widest political support".
The petition submitted by the two bodies argues that the minimum pricing legislation is "not law" for the following reasons: i) It is outwith the competence of the Scottish Parliament because it deals with matters reserved to Westminster, ie "the regulation of...the sale and supply of goods and services to consumers".
The letter, backed by doctors and other supporters of the minimum price legislation, argues that 60 lives would already have been saved if the law had come into force as planned.
The UK government is to back the Scottish government when its minimum alcohol pricing legislation is challenged in the courts.
This paper presents the first large-scale qualitative examination of how newsprint media framed the debate around the harms of alcohol consumption to 'others' during the development and passing of minimum unit pricing legislation in Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament also passed a Tory amendment demanding the removal of minimum pricing from the legislation.
On the 24 May 2012, the Scottish Government passed the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012, legislation to implement MUP across Scotland at 50 ppu (Scottish Government, 2012a, b).
