Subordinate Legislation Committee, 05 Sep 2000
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 5, 2000
Official Report
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Education (Student Loans) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/240)
There has been a delay with SSI 2000/240.
Could we find out why there has been a delay? We are often told that there has been a delay, but we are rarely told why.
The explanatory note has a reference to "mortgage style loans". It has been indelibly seared on my memory from court experience that the word mortgage has no place in Scots law—standard security or home loan, yes; mortgage, no. I hope that parliamentary draftsmen might bear that in mind—either that or not meet Sheriff David Smith socially.
I agree. On the issue in our briefing note of having to wait for the Department for Education and Employment, I would ask whether we are not allowed to move at our own pace. I can see the benefit of acting collectively on cross-border matters, but why should we go at the pace of the slowest ship in the convoy?