Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019

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Subordinate Legislation

Licensing (Personal Licences: Supplemental and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Order 2019 (SSI 2019/177)

Agenda item 3 is consideration of Scottish statutory instrument 2019/177. I refer members to paper 3. The instrument has been laid under the negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless Parliament agrees to a motion to annul it. No motion to annul has been lodged. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 4 June 2019 and determined that it did not need to draw the attention of Parliament to the instrument on any ground within its remit. Do members have any comments on the instrument?

In the circumstances, the instrument is sensible. I do not understand why personal licence holders, who knew that there was a deadline, did not get their applications in, so it is a proportionate response to the demands that have been placed on licensing boards by people’s failure to apply to renew their licences.

Does the committee agree to make no recommendation on the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you very much. That ends the public part of the meeting.