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Agricultural Holdings (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2003 (draft)
The point that we have to raise on the draft order recurs in relation to a number of other instruments that we are considering this morning. In this case, the order refers to "the Sixth Schedule" and "the Seventh Schedule" instead of "schedule 6" and "schedule 7". That is purely a drafting, or stylistic, issue. The legal adviser would refer to it as a style issue.
It is important for the sake of consistency across instruments that the same terminology is employed, so that the people who use or read them do not get confused. People might wonder whether there is some difference between "the Sixth Schedule" and something else called "schedule 6".
No other points arise, although I gather that there is a small typing error in the draft order, which we can deal with in an informal letter.
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