Representation of the People Act 1983 Remedial (Scotland) Order 2025: equality impact assessment

The Scope of the EQIA

The SSIs has a potential impact on some protected characteristic groups.

There will generally be a positive impact although it is expected that only around 20 persons will be enfranchised by the change.

In conducting this EQIA, the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation were considered. The impacts on these protected characteristics were considered alongside the public sector equality duty to have due regard to the need to:

• eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and any other unlawful conduct prohibited by the act
• advance equality of opportunity between people who share and people who do not share a relevant protected characteristic
• foster good relations between people who share and people who do not share a relevant protected characteristic