Subordinate Legislation Committee, 09 Dec 2003

Meeting date: Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Official Report 136KB pdf

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Instruments Not Laid Before the Parliament

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Instruments Not Laid <br />Before the Parliament

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African Swine Fever (Scotland) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/586)

Late implementation of the order is an issue, but there are no other substantive points to raise.

The Executive explained that because of the aftermath of the foot-and-mouth epidemic, it was not possible to implement the order by the implementation date. Does anyone have any points to make?

That might be an acceptable reason, but the precedent is that the committee reports such lateness. Do you not think that we should?

Not unless you want to.

No. We would be being horrid.

No substantive points arise on the order.

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Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No 4) Order 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/588)

A minor point has been noted in the explanatory note, but apart from that no substantive points arise.

I thank the committee for its patience and for doing a lot of reading in connection with some of the instruments.

Meeting closed at 11:07.