Health and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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Subordinate Legislation

National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No 2) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/434)

Good morning, and welcome to the fourth meeting in 2018 of the Health and Sport Committee. I ask everyone to ensure that their mobile phones are off or on silent, and I remind people that although it is acceptable to use mobile devices for social media, there should be no photography or recording, as we have people in the Parliament to do that for us and all of that is readily available.

We have received apologies from Miles Briggs.

Agenda item 1 is subordinate legislation. We have one instrument that is subject to negative procedure to consider today. We considered the instrument last week and agreed to seek clarification from the Scottish Government because of points that were raised by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee regarding the drafting of the regulations. A response has been received, in which the Scottish Government has advised that there is no detrimental effect on any members of the superannuation scheme and that the error will be corrected as soon as possible. It is a drafting error rather than one that has a substantive effect. On that basis, do members agree to make no recommendations on the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.