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Chamber and committees

Criminal Justice Committee [Session 6]


Minutes: 11 June 2025

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

19th Meeting, 2025

Start time:09:00am
End time: 12:45pm
Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
Published: Thursday, 12 June 2025
Apologies received from:
Substitute Members Attendees:
Also Present:
  • Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs and Maggie Chapman.

Minutes


1. Subordinate legislation:

The Committee considered the following negative instrument—

Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/149)

The Committee made no recommendations in relation to the instrument.


2. Subordinate legislation:

The Committee took evidence on the Home Detention Curfew (Amendment of Specified Time Periods) (Scotland) Order 2025 [draft] from—

Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs, Scottish Government.


3. Subordinate legislation:

Angela Constance (Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs) moved—

S6M-17635—That the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the Home Detention Curfew (Amendment of Specified Time Periods) (Scotland) Order 2025 [draft] be approved.

The motion was agreed to (by division: For 6; Against 2; Abstentions 0).


4. Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill:

The Committee considered the Bill at Stage 2.

The following amendments were agreed to (without division): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32.

The following amendments were disagreed to (by division)—
         46 (For 4, Against 4, Abstentions 0; amendment disagreed to on casting vote)
         93 (For 4, Against 4, Abstentions 0; amendment disagreed to on casting vote)
         49 (For 4, Against 4, Abstentions 0; amendment disagreed to on casting vote)
         50 (For 4, Against 4, Abstentions 0; amendment disagreed to on casting vote)

The following amendments were moved and, no member having objected, withdrawn: 56, 33, 34, 44, 59, 54, 55, 60 and 77.

The following amendments were pre-empted: 52 and 91.

The following amendments were not moved: 57, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,  43, 45, 47, 48, 58, 51, 53, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 and 92.

The following provisions were agreed to without amendment: sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13, the schedule and sections 14, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29 and the long title.

The following provisions were agreed to as amended: sections 4, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 25 and 26.

The Committee completed Stage 2 consideration of the Bill.

 


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