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Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Scotland)<br />Order 2003 (SSI 2003/560)
Item 2 is Executive responses. We wrote back to the Executive about the Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Scotland) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/560). Do you wish to comment, Gordon?
Not at all. I was just smiling inanely to myself about the contradictions. Can people not make up their minds whether to keep them or release them? I was just sitting here, wondering what it all meant.
You will see from its response that the Executive thinks that it is clarifying the situation, but there is still some concern expressed in our legal advice about how the matter is being dealt with. What are the committee's views?
I do not think that we would gain anything by pursuing the matter further with the Executive. I think that we should simply report our comments to the lead committee. Given the way in which Scotland has been defined in the order, we do not think that the provisions are necessarily intra vires.
Our concerns will be passed to the lead committee and Parliament. Do you wish to comment, Murray?
No—it is nothing.
I thought that we were going to hear a gem there.