Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Official Report 795KB pdf

Subordinate Legislation

Licensed Legal Services (Complaints About Approved Regulators) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/341)

Agenda item 3 is consideration of a negative Scottish statutory instrument. I refer members to paper 5, which is a note by the clerk. Do members have any comments?

I will repeat a comment that I made fairly recently. Presumably, the Government either has an impact assessment that is shared or it does not. Paragraph 12 of the policy note that is included in paper 5 states:

“An ... impact assessment was discussed with the Law Society”.

However, paragraph 13 refers to:

“A Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment”.

I find that quite peculiar. I have no further comment to make.

We will feed that back to the Government’s business manager, who has been taking a particular interest in SSIs; I am sure that he will find that very helpful.

If there are no other comments, does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.