苏格兰议会设立的意义

Significance of the establishment of the Scottish parliament

1999年苏格兰议会的设立,是布莱尔新工党地方分权改革中影响深远、具有重要宪政意义的举措,是近三百年来,苏格兰取得的最重要的政治成就。1998年苏格兰法以默示的方式赋予苏格兰议会广泛的立法权限,并对其可能出现的越权立法制定了多重制约机制。说明在有限的范围内,竞争性政治已开始在英国显现出来。

The establishment of the Scottish parliament in 1999 is the most important achievement in Scottish politics since 1707. It has far - reaching influences on the devolution reforms conducted by the New Labor Party under the leadership of Tony Blair. The Scottish Act of 1998 was designed in such a way as to render the powers of the devolved parliament implicit rather than explicit and it has several checking and balancing mechanisms to prevent the Scottish parliament from trespassing into the area of reserved powers of the National parliament. All these show that competitive politics has begun to emerge in the U. K.