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Chamber and committees

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 05 Oct 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 5, 2004


Contents


Instruments Not Laid Before the Parliament


Instruments Not Laid Before <br />the Parliament


Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (Commencement No 2 and Revocation) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/416)

No points have been identified on the order, but exceptionally good work has been done on it by our legal advisers, who headed off some issues that were taken on board by the Executive before the order reached us.

Well done to everybody.


Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/420)

The Convener:

This order is an example of good practice, because the Executive has chosen to make one commencement order for the whole of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004, providing for different provisions to be commenced at different times. We should welcome that approach, because it gives the user of the act a better idea of what is in force.

Christine May:

Could we somehow ensure that the order is drawn to the attention of all departments that are working on subordinate legislation to implement acts? If different sections of an act commence on different dates, it is much easier for the users and for practitioners to have those dates in one order.

The clerk will do that.

Paragraph 85 of the legal brief says that there were "minor infelicities in form" in the order, but apart from that, it is fine.