Health and Sport Committee, 05 Nov 2008
Meeting date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 (SSI 2008/322)
Good morning. I welcome everyone to the 26th meeting in 2008 of the Health and Sport Committee. I remind all members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off.
Helen Eadie has sent her apologies.
Agenda item 1 is consideration of subordinate legislation, and we have before us one negative instrument, which amends the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/549). The new regulations ensure compliance with a Court of Session judgment that the labelling requirements that were introduced by the 2007 regulations were invalid.
The regulations were drawn to the committee's attention by the Subordinate Legislation Committee on the ground that regulation 3 contains an error. The Subordinate Legislation Committee raised the issue with the Scottish Government. In response, the Food Standards Agency Scotland acknowledged the error, but gave the assurance that it does not affect the legal validity of the provision.
No comments have been received from members and no motions to annul have been lodged. Are we agreed that the committee does not wish to make any recommendations on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.