Local Government and Regeneration Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Register of Interests) Amendment Regulations (SSI 2014/50)
Agenda item 2 is consideration of two negative instruments. Members have a paper from the clerk that sets out the purpose of each instrument and contains comments from the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has drawn our attention to the defective drafting of regulation 4. Although the Scottish Government has accepted that there was an omission in the drafting, it has assessed that the drafting error can be highlighted during the process of approving new codes of conduct under section 3 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000.
As members have no comments, does the committee agree to make no recommendation to the Parliament on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
Town and Country Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2014 (SSI 2014/51)
The amendment regulations, which relate to the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, insert “heavy fuel oils” into the list of such substances.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has drawn our attention to the relatively short delay in implementing article 30 of the directive, but also to the transitional provisions that cover a person who does not presently need hazardous substance consent but who, from 29 March 2014, will immediately require such consent. The Scottish Government acknowledges the short delay, which happened because of competing resource pressures within the policy department, and it has assessed that it is unlikely that many sites will be affected by the transitional exemption.
As members have no comments, does the committee agree to make no recommendation to the Parliament on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you very much. As agreed, we now move into private session.
11:05
Meeting continued in private until 11:22.