Justice 1 Committee, 01 Feb 2006

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Official Report 103KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Fees) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2005 <br />(SSI 2005/656)

We have three negative instruments before us today. We will take each one in turn. Does anyone have any comments on the first set of regulations?

Members indicated disagreement.

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Bail Conditions (Methods of Monitoring Compliance and Specifications of Devices) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/7)

Are there any comments on the second set of regulations?

Members indicated disagreement.

I should indicate at this stage that I am reserving my position on the regulations for the narrow purpose of making some personal inquiries as to the effectiveness of the devices that they sanction. It is not that I am seeking to oppose the principle of what the regulations contain, and I have time to make those inquiries.

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Restriction of Liberty Order (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/8)

Are there any comments on the third set of regulations?

Members indicated disagreement.

These regulations are also about devices, so I make the same comment in relation to them as I made in relation to the previous set of regulations.

Is the committee happy to note all three sets of regulations?

Members indicated agreement.

I would like to give the convener the opportunity to be present for the start of agenda item 5. Unless anyone objects, I intend to suspend the meeting.

You mean item 6.

I beg your pardon. I must be ahead of myself.

I see now: my briefing note says 5, but you are perfectly correct—I meant item 6.

I was not meaning to be pedantic.

I am obliged to you, Mr Pringle. I will suspend the meeting for one minute before handing over to the convener, who has just arrived.

Meeting suspended until 10.04 and thereafter continued in private until 13.04.