Subordinate Legislation Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Official Report 323KB pdf

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Instruments subject to Affirmative Procedure

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Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 [Draft]

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Public Services Reform (Functions of the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service) (Scotland) Order 2013 [Draft]

I welcome members to the Subordinate Legislation Committee’s 18th meeting in 2013 and ask them to switch off phones. We have received apologies from Nigel Don, who has business elsewhere.

The committee agreed that no points arose on the instruments.

Members will recall that the committee took evidence from Scottish Government officials on the consultation draft of the public services reform order at its meeting on 19 March. The committee asked a number of questions about whether the Scottish Government had satisfied the tests for modifying the functions of the Common Services Agency through an order as opposed to primary legislation.

Additional information that is included in the explanatory document that accompanies that order demonstrates that the Scottish Government has considered the concerns that the committee raised. Further to that, members may wish to note that the drafting error that the committee identified when it considered the consultation draft has been corrected.