Subordinate Legislation Committee, 29 Jan 2002

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Official Report 159KB pdf

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Executive Responses

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Forth Estuary Transport Authority Order 2002 (Draft)

For the next agenda item, I have information on the Executive's responses to a couple of the points that were raised last week.

The Executive has not conceded that "Forth Estuary" is a misnomer but—you never know—we are working on it. The draft order has been withdrawn today, as the Executive has accepted that the points that we made were valid.

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Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2002<br />(SSI 2002/6)

The difficulty with the regulations was about cross-border ownership between the two jurisdictions. The regulations are working in Scotland and there are regulations that are probably working in England, but the two sets have not meshed. The regulations are therefore being reconsidered.

The Executive's response states:

"Full account will be taken of the observations of the Committee in carrying out that review."

That is us. We got it right. We knocked it off.