
2025 No. 278
EDUCATION
The Qualifications Scotland (Appointment of Initial Members) Regulations 2025
Made 2nd October 2025
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 6th October 2025
Coming into force 1st December 2025
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 5(2) of schedule 3 of the Education (Scotland) Act 2025 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Qualifications Scotland (Appointment of Initial Members) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1 December 2025.
Initial members of Qualifications Scotland
2 
A person mentioned in column 1 of the table in the schedule who is, immediately before the member appointment date, a member of the Scottish Qualifications Authority, is to be taken to have been appointed as a member of Qualifications Scotland under the provisions of schedule 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 2025 mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
JENNY GILRUTH
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew's House,
Edinburgh
2nd October 2025
Schedule
Members of the Scottish Qualifications Authority to be taken to have been appointed as members of Qualifications Scotland
Regulation 2


Column 1 Column 2
Ronnie Erskine paragraph 2(1)(d)
Seán Hagney paragraph 2(1)(d)
Simon Hewitt paragraph 2(1)(d)
Caroline McFarlane paragraph 2(1)(d)
John Morton paragraph 2(1)(d)
Ken Thomson paragraph 2(1)(b)
Michelle Wailes paragraph 2(1)(d)