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Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export and Movement Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/518)
We move to agenda item 4. From now on, I will refer to the summary of recommendations, paper SL/S3/07/15/2.
I tried to ask this question earlier, but we ran out of time. We are drawing attention to a variety of errors—I do not know how minor they are as I am new to the committee—but do we have timescales within which such errors will be corrected? It is all very well for the Government to say that it undertakes to correct errors at the earliest opportunity, but the question for us is how soon that will happen.
I imagine that they will be corrected fairly speedily.
In this particular case, a new foot-and-mouth instrument will be considered by the committee next week. However, that does not address your general point.
The general issue has arisen in many of the instruments that we have considered recently. We should ensure that such errors are attended to within a reasonable timescale.
By force of timing, this issue will be live for some time yet.
As was mentioned earlier, such matters should be tracked so that we receive a report at some time on whether the undertakings have been put into effect. I think that we have agreed to that.
Indeed we have.
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