Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Official Report 630KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Asset Transfer Request (Designation of Relevant Authority) (Scotland) Order 2017 [draft]

Under item 3, the committee will formally consider motion S5M-02700.

Motion moved,

That the Local Government and Communities Committee recommends that the Asset Transfer Request (Designation of Relevant Authority) (Scotland) Order 2017 [draft] be approved.—[Kevin Stewart.]

We will now have a debate in which only members and the minister may speak.

This is a very short draft order designating a new relevant authority. I hope that future orders can be as expeditiously drafted and approved.

Thank you, Mr Wightman. No other members want to comment, which is excellent, as we like brevity from time to time.

Minister, it has been the shortest of debates, but do you wish to sum up?

I am quite happy to leave it as is. As you well know, I have a great interest in community empowerment. I hope that the committee will continue to scrutinise all this to the same degree as its predecessor committee did, and I am happy to come here at any point to talk about community empowerment further.

I am sure that we will have you back. Thank you for those words.

Motion agreed to,

That the Local Government and Communities Committee recommends that the Asset Transfer Request (Designation of Relevant Authority) (Scotland) Order 2017 [draft] be approved.

The committee will report on the instrument in due course.

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Asset Transfer Request (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/357)

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Asset Transfer Request (Review Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/358)

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Asset Transfer Request (Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/359)

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Asset Transfer Request (Appeal Where No Contract Concluded) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/360)

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Asset Transfer Request (Designation of Community Transfer Bodies) (Scotland) Order 2016 (SSI 2016/361)

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Community Empowerment (Registers of Land) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/362)

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Community Planning (Locality Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SSI 2016/364)

Agenda item 4 is consideration of SSI 2016/357, SSI 2016/358, SSI 2016/359, SSI 2016/360, SSI 2016/361, SSI 2016/362 and—if anyone who is listening is still following me—SSI 2016/364.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee reported on a number of those negative instruments due to technical errors or a lack of clarity. The Scottish Government has agreed to bring forward some amending instruments where required. The errors do not affect the policy that the instruments are implementing—I want that on the public record.

The instruments are laid under the negative procedure, which means that their provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul them. No motion to annul has been lodged.

As members have no comments on the instruments, I ask the committee to agree that it does not wish to make any recommendation in relation to them.

Members indicated agreement.

That ends that part of the meeting. I thank the minister and his officials.

Thank you.

10:34 Meeting suspended.  

10:38 On resuming—