Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020
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Contents
- Attendance
- Interests
- Instruments subject to Affirmative Procedure
- Instrument subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Agenda item 4 is consideration of three instruments that are not subject to parliamentary procedure and on which no points have been raised.
South of Scotland Enterprise Act 2019 (Commencement and Transitional Provision) Amendment Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/85 (C 10))
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 (SSI 2020/86)
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020 (SSI 2020/93)
Is the committee content with the instruments?
There is one point that I want to raise regarding SSI 2020/93. I understand why the instrument was brought in at short notice, why it has been acted upon and why no time limit is set for its operation. However, I think that it would be helpful to contact the Lord Justice General or his office to ask what the provisions are for the instrument being taken out of force once the current pandemic situation has passed, because that does not appear on the face of the act of adjournal, for understandable reasons.
Is the committee content to defer consideration of SSI 2020/93 until its next meeting and, in the meantime, to write to the Lord President to request a response to Gordon Lindhurst’s question?
Members indicated agreement.
Is the committee content with SSI 2020/85 and SSI 2020/86?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting closed at 13:31.