Subordinate Legislation Committee, 04 Sep 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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Interests

I welcome you all to the third meeting of the Subordinate Legislation Committee this session. In particular, I welcome our two new members, John Park and Dr Richard Simpson. I also welcome our legal team, including those who are sitting at the side of the committee room—they are watching what happens as there will sometimes be substitutions of personnel at the committee table. We have received apologies from Helen Eadie. I ask everyone to turn off their mobile phones and pagers.

We will be considering a number of Scottish statutory instruments subject to the negative procedure that have breached the 21-day rule, as you can see from your papers. By that I mean that they have come into force within 21 days of being laid. However, that is not unusual for the end of a recess.

Convener, we should hear the declarations of interests from the new members of the committee.

Indeed. Thank you for reminding me of that. Do the new members wish to declare anything before the committee?

I have nothing to declare other than what is already listed on the Parliament's website.

I have no interests additional to those that are presently given on the website.