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National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/443)
The Executive has acknowledged our first point about defective drafting. However, the legal adviser feels that the Executive's responses to question 2, on the word "applicable", and question 3, on when the 14-day and seven-day periods begin, is not clear. What are members' views?
I agree with the legal adviser.
The Executive's response to question 3 does not answer the question. The Executive has underlined that the seven days is an "additional" period. However, I do not think that that answers the question of whether the seven days is conjoined to the 14 days. I am keen to bring that to the attention of the lead committee.
Question 4 was on whether a reference for a locum had a life span of 15 months. The Executive has provided a satisfactory explanation. Are members happy to refer the four points to the lead committee as indicated?
Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/445)
Members will remember that the point was that Aminotriazole appeared as a heading, instead of Amitrole. I am a chemist, but I am unsure whether I pronounced those correctly—I hope that I have. The Executive believes that there should be no difficulty in understanding the regulations, even though the wrong term was used in a heading. Do members have any further points?
No. We should formally draw to the attention of the lead committee and the Parliament the point about defective drafting.