Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Official Report 839KB pdf

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance 2007) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Agenda item 3 is consideration of a proposal by the Scottish Government to consent to the United Kingdom Government legislating using the powers under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in relation to two UK statutory instruments. I refer members to paper 5, which is a private paper. Do members have any comments? We have submissions from the Law Society of Scotland on both instruments and from Professor Janeen Carruthers, who seem to be content with the instruments.

My only comment is that I found the submissions to be extremely useful and persuasive.

Is the committee content to recommend that the Scottish Parliament gives its consent to the UK Parliament to pass the two statutory instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes our 25th meeting in 2018. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 23 October, when we will continue our post-legislative scrutiny of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 and pre-budget scrutiny.