Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, 01 Apr 2009

Meeting date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Official Report 232KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2009<br />(SSI 2009/75)<br />Aquatic Animal Health (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/85)

Item 2 is subordinate legislation. We have two negative instruments to consider: the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2009 and the Aquatic Animal Health (Scotland) Regulations 2009. The Subordinate Legislation Committee has made recommendations on both instruments. The relevant extracts of its reports have been circulated to members as paper 3.

Nobody has raised any points on either of the instruments and no motions to annul have been lodged. Do members have any comments on the instruments?

I have a point of clarification. I am not sure whether I am plumbing the depths of pedantry, but there is a reference in regulation 3 and elsewhere in SSI 2009/85 to work that is to be carried out by Fisheries Research Services in Aberdeen. I am conscious that the Government is launching marine Scotland today, bringing together the marine directorate, Fisheries Research Services and the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency. For clarification, do the references need to be amended?

We can send a letter to ask about that, because FRS is coming into marine Scotland.

Do members agree to the recommendations on the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.