Procedures Committee, 31 Oct 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Official Report 244KB pdf

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Consolidation Bills

Let us make speedier progress on the more minor agenda items. We will deal with another aspect of consolidation bills in private later on, but agenda item 2 is about definitions and codification bills versus consolidation bills.

Paragraph 7 on page 2 of the note by the clerks includes what seems to be a sensible way forward, which is that the current rule in standing orders should deal with consolidation bills as they are understood but that there should be another rule, with slight modifications but along the same lines, to deal with codification bills.

Just for clarity and to ensure that I understand, am I right that consolidation bills deal with statute law and codification bills deal with statute and common law?

Yes.

Okay. That is the fault line.

I bet that you are pleased that I raised the point previously, convener.

You have your uses.