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Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (draft)
Members will recall that Stewart Maxwell raised the point and we asked the Executive to confirm whether, in form 2 of part VI of schedule 1, the term "(see note 3)" is correct when referring to an electoral number. It appeared to us that it should be a reference to note 5. The Executive agreed that it is an error but it does not seem to want to alter it at the moment. It is going to wait and see if the order gets through the lead committee and Parliament.
That is a bit of a pity because the defect that we identified could have been corrected readily. However, the Executive has covered the point and I dare say that it might be trying to cover itself against other potentially undetected defects that might surface subsequently. In the circumstances, that might be a reasonable way for the Executive to proceed.
Okay. Are we content to report the defective drafting to the lead committee and Parliament?
Water Services etc (Scotland) Act 2005 (Commencement No 5) Order 2006 <br />(SSI 2006/599)
The committee noted that this is the fifth commencement order for the act so we asked how many more commencement orders are expected. The response is that the Executive thinks that it has now more or less covered them all with the fifth one. Are members content with that response?
We will draw the information provided to the attention of Parliament.