Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Subordinate Legislation

Private Landlord Registration (Information) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/195)

Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/204)

Item 3 is consideration of two Scottish statutory instruments. I refer members to paper 3, which contains further details. The instruments have been laid under the negative procedure, which means that their provisions will come into force unless Parliament agrees to a motion to annul them. No such motion has been lodged. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered SSI 2019/195 at its meeting on 18 June 2019 and determined that it did not need to draw the attention of the Parliament to the instrument on any grounds within its remit.

The DPLR Committee considered SSI 2019/204 at the same meeting and reported that it does not respect the rule that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of a negative instrument and its coming into force. The committee considered that to be acceptable in the circumstances, given that the instrument largely provides for corrective action in response to minor errors in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/161), which had previously been considered by the Local Government and Communities Committee. The DPLR Committee noted that the corrective instrument that is before us today will allow the associated regulations to come into force on the intended date of 20 June 2019.

As no members have any comments on the instrument, I invite the committee to agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the instruments.

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you. That ends the public part of the meeting and we will now move into private session.