Health and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Official Report 586KB pdf

Subordinate Legislation

Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Prescribed Days) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/207)

Good morning, and welcome to the 20th meeting in 2017 of the Health and Sport Committee. I ask everyone in the room to ensure that their mobile phones are on silent. It is acceptable to use mobile devices for social media, but please do not take photographs or record proceedings.

Apologies have been received from Alex Cole-Hamilton and Tom Arthur. We expect Bob Doris to join us; he might appear at some point.

The first item on our agenda is subordinate legislation. We have to consider one instrument that is subject to negative procedure: the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Prescribed Days) Regulations 2017. No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has not made any comments on the regulations.

The committee first considered the regulations at its meeting on 5 September and agreed to write to the Scottish Government for further information. A response has not yet been received. That is disappointing, so we will write to the Scottish Government about that.

As members have no comments to make on the regulations, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on them?

Members indicated agreement.