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Instruments Subject <br />to Annulment
Invergarry-Kyle of Lochalsh Trunk Road (A87) Extension (Skye Bridge Crossing) Toll Order (Revocation) Order 2005 <br />(SSI 2005/167)
There are no points of substance on the order. Are there any further points?
It seems strange that it is necessary to revoke something that was not properly assigned: it was illegal to charge tolls in the first place. However, the order is perfectly all right.
Robbie the Pict will be proud
He will indeed. An instrument was in place so it had to be revoked.
There are no substantive points.
Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations<br />2005 (SSI 2005/171)
I do not know whether members want to raise the issue of consolidation.
Yes.
I gather that this is the seventh time that the regulations have been amended.
Building (Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/172)<br />TSE (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/173)
Mental Health (Fee Payable to Designated Medical Practitioners) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/175)<br />Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (Prescribed Persons) Regulations<br />2005 (SSI 2005/176)
No substantive points have been raised on the regulations.
National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/179)
The regulations breach the 21-day rule. Although we have received an explanation, which is that the Executive wanted to bring the regulations out at the same time as the English ones, I wondered whether we should ask further why that was not accommodated in our time schedule.
I think that we should. It is stretching credulity a bit far to suggest that it came as a surprise and a shock to the Executive that those regulations were on the horizon. Its explanation for breaching the 21-day rule may be correct, but it seems unlikely. We should at least ask the Executive when it first knew that the regulations were coming.
The drafting of regulation 6 is arguably defective as there is no cross-reference to the principal regulations. Is that agreed?
Police Pensions Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/200)
There are no substantive points on the regulations.
Intensive Support and Monitoring (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/201)
We made a number of recommendations on the principal regulations. Members will be pleased to hear that most of those have been acted on.
Our second concern was that the definitions of "crisis response service" and "movement restriction care plan" in the principal regulations went beyond mere definitions and imposed substantive requirements. The amending regulations remove the definitions.
It is interesting that the Executive initially rejected the committee's arguments but then sneaked in the changes that we proposed. However, it is good that the Executive agreed with us.
We must welcome the Executive's about-turn.
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (Authorised Persons) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/205)<br />Mental Health (Provision of Information to Patients) (Prescribed Times) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/206)
No substantive points have been identified on the regulations.