Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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Subordinate Legislation

Building (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/214)

Agenda item 2 is subordinate legislation. The committee will consider Scottish statutory instrument 2017/214, which has been laid under negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless Parliament were to agree to a motion to annul it.

As set out in paper 1, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 27 June. That committee drew the instrument to the attention of Parliament because it did not meet the requirement that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of the instrument and its coming into force. However, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee determined that that failure to comply with the 28-day rule was acceptable because the regulations were made to correct an omission in the Building (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/188) and there was, as the Scottish Government has explained, an urgent need to bring the regulations into force for public safety reasons.

No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged. I do not see any member indicating that they wish to make comments on the regulations, so does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to them?

Members indicated agreement.

We now move into private session.