Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Official Report 461KB pdf
Contents
- Attendance
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Agenda item 3 is consideration of four instruments that are not subject to parliamentary procedure and on which no points have been raised.
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020 (SSI 2020/93)
Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 2020 (Commencement No 1 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/107 (C 11))
Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No 2) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/119 (C 12))
Coronavirus Act 2020 (Commencement No 1) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/121 (C 13))
Members will recall that, when we last met, we agreed to write to the Lord President to ask whether there would be a time limit on the operation of SSI 2020/93. Members will have seen the Lord President’s interesting response, in which he says that there is currently no time limit, as the act of adjournal might be
“of utility beyond the end of the pandemic and its operational recovery period.”
I propose to write back to the Lord President to thank him for his update and to highlight that correspondence to the lead committee—the Justice Committee—for its interest and information. Do members agree to that?
Members indicated agreement.
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
12:41 Meeting continued in private until 12:43.