A Bill to make provision about the acceptability of Scottish banknotes throughout the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.
The Bill would impose a requirement on businesses not to make a distinction between Scottish and other banknotes issued in the United Kingdom as acceptable payment for goods and services. It would give powers to the Office of Fair Trading to investigate breaches of this requirement and to issue notices of compliance. The Bill would not affect the right of a business to refuse to accept banknotes which it considered to be forgeries.
This Bill would require businesses across the UK to treat Scottish banknotes the same as other UK banknotes when accepting payment for goods and services. It would give the Office of Fair Trading power to investigate breaches and issue compliance notices, but would not force businesses to accept notes they believe are forged.
The bill is at its second reading stage in the House of Commons and has not yet progressed to committee or further stages.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented, through the ballot procedure, to Parliament on 21 January. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
This Bill was on the Order Paper for a Second Reading debate on 6 March. Time ran out before the debate was finished. The sponsor dropped the Bill which make no further progress this Session.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
