[1] The Unincorporated Councils and Committees of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has an exemption from registering lobbying individual MSPs, who are not members of the Scottish Government.

[1] Failure to comply with the Act can lead to a complaint to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland, who must publish guidance on how such cases would be handled.

[4] In 2020, it was reported that several instances of what could be considered "lobbying" in a colloquial sense were completely excluded by the Act.

[6] In 2024, the co-leaders were criticised as potentially falling foul of the Act for offering to meet donors for £700.

[7][8] In 2024, there were reports of several meetings between SSE and Gillian Martin, the then-energy minister to do with a gas plant in Aberdeenshire.