Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 4, 2019

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Instruments subject to Negative Procedure

Agenda item 2 is consideration of three negative instruments, on which no points have been raised.

National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/174)

Environment (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/175)

Licensing (Personal Licences: Supplemental and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Order 2019 (SSI 2019/177)

For anyone who is watching these proceedings or who reads the Official Report of them afterwards, I will explain the purpose of SSI 2019/177. It relates to personal licences, up to 15,000 of which were due for renewal. It will give licensing boards longer to consider the licence renewals, which all had to be in by the end of May. They would have had to have been considered by September, but licensing boards will now have until the end of February to deal with the large number of renewals. I thought that it was worth explaining that.

As I said, no points have been raised on the instruments. Is the committee content with them?

Members indicated agreement.