Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Official Report 429KB pdf

Subordinate Legislation

Civil Protection Measures, European Protection Order and Victims’ Rights (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment Etc) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/249)

Welcome to the 25th meeting in 2022 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. We have received no apologies for the meeting.

Our first agenda item is consideration of a negative Scottish statutory instrument. I refer members to paper 1. Do members have any comments on the instrument?

I have no questions or comments; what we have in front of us is fine. However, I wonder whether the committee should take an interest in any impacts that the instrument might have, especially given that Scottish orders will not be recognised elsewhere. Should we bear that in mind as regards the impacts on victims and survivors? Perhaps we should write a letter to the Government to ask how it will monitor such impacts, or whether it will do so at all.

That is sensible.

If members have no other comments, are members agreed that we should write to the Government in the terms that Maggie Chapman has suggested? I see that Fulton MacGregor and Pam Gosal, who are joining us online, are smiling and have their thumbs up.

No other member has indicated that they wish to comment. Are members therefore content for the committee not to make any comments to the Parliament on the instrument, being mindful that we will write the letter that we have discussed? I see that members are content.

That concludes consideration of the instrument. We will now move into private session for the final item on our agenda.