Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Contents
- Attendance
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- Instrument subject to Made Affirmative Procedure
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
Under agenda item 3, we are considering seven instruments. Issues have been raised on the following instrument.
Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/42)
The instrument makes a number of amendments to the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Regulations 2023. The 2023 regulations require producers of products to collect and/or report data on the amount and type of packaging that they place on the market, as part of extended producer responsibility for packaging.
In correspondence with the Scottish Government, which has been published alongside the papers for this meeting, the committee asked about the adequacy of the explanatory note for the regulations—they amount to just one substantive paragraph—given the length and complexity of the regulations. On reflection, the Scottish Government agreed that additional information would aid understanding of the instrument and has undertaken to amend the explanatory note by way of correction slip at the earliest opportunity.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground, on the basis that the explanatory note is too brief?
Members indicated agreement.
Does the committee wish to welcome the Scottish Government’s undertaking to amend the explanatory note?
Members indicated agreement.
Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.
National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/43)
Non-Domestic Rates (Islands and Remote Areas Hospitality Relief) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/55)
Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2024 (SSI 2024/56)
Discretionary Financial Assistance (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/58)
Non-Domestic Rates (Transitional Relief) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/59)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2024 (SI 2024/192)
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
In relation to SSI 2024/43, the committee obtained further information from the Scottish Government regarding why the tools that are specified in the instrument are not publicly available. Does the committee wish to draw that correspondence to the attention of the lead committee?
Members indicated agreement.
The committee notes the correspondence that it received from the Royal College of Nursing Scotland and understands that it has written in similar terms to the lead committee.
In relation to SSI 2024/59, does the committee wish to welcome that the instrument fulfils a commitment by the Scottish Government to correct an error that the committee identified in the Non-Domestic Rates (Transitional Relief) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/5)?
Members indicated agreement.