Rural Affairs and Environment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Official Report 423KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Beet Seed (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/148)

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Poultry Compartments (Fees) (Scotland) Order 2010 (SSI 2010/151)

Agenda item 2 is consideration of two negative Scottish statutory instruments: the Beet Seed (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2010 and the Poultry Compartments (Fees) (Scotland) Order 2010.

The Subordinate Legislation Committee has reported on the Beet Seed (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2010, and the relevant extract of that committee’s report has been circulated to members as paper RAE/S3/10/12/3. The regulations replace SSI 2010/67, which we considered at our meeting on 24 March, when a motion to annul was agreed to following a division. This time round, no member has raised any concerns in advance on either of the instruments and no motions to annul have been lodged. Do members have any comments on the instruments?

I very much welcome the redrafting of the regulations and the fact that the Subordinate Legislation Committee had no comments to make on them.

The point was made to us when we agreed to the motion to annul SSI 2010/67 that the process would be difficult because the whole set of regulations would have to be redrafted and would take a long time to come back. In fact, they have come back within a few weeks. That shows that the committee took the right course of action in annulling SSI 2010/67, rather than allowing a defective SSI to stand and trying to amend it in future legislation.

Does the committee agree not to make any recommendation in relation to the SSIs as detailed on the agenda?

Members indicated agreement.