Justice 1 Committee, 09 Jun 2004

Meeting date: Wednesday, June 9, 2004

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Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Fees)

Item 3 is on the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Members have a note by our reporter, Michael Matheson, and the clerk on the Executive's consultation on charging of fees under the act. I invite members to consider the draft response to the consultation.

I want to thank the clerks for their assistance in drafting the note. I hope that the committee will accept the proposal in paragraph 23.

Given that some members are not here to express their views, we should simply circulate the note. If no one replies, we will adopt the position that is set out in the note. I think that there is general agreement on what we want to say about charging.

The next meeting of the Justice 1 Committee will be on Wednesday 16 June 2004 in the chamber, where we will conduct our quarterly consideration of petitions, consider a number of statutory instruments that are subject to the negative procedure and consider in private our stage 1 report on the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Bill. Thank you for your attendance.

Meeting closed at 13:15.