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Instruments Subject <br />to Annulment
Import and Export Restrictions <br />(Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No 6) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/494)
The list of questions is in the summary of recommendations. It is worth saying that if I ask whether members are content with the Scottish Government's explanation for the breach of the 21-day rule, that implies that I am asking whether you are content with the Government's reasons why the instrument came into force before it was laid. I do not want to guide you from the chair, but we can all appreciate the urgency of the situation. Are you therefore content with the three questions listed in the summary of recommendations?
Finally, are we content to raise a couple of minor points as usual with the Scottish Government?
Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/499)
Are members content to ask the Scottish Government the three questions listed in the summary of recommendations?
National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/500)
This is an interesting point, although the mistake is probably very small. Are members content to ask the Scottish Government whether the reference to section 228A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 in the preamble to the instrument should refer to section 28A, and if so, what the effect is of that typographical error?
Is there a section 228A in the act?
No.
It is clearly a straightforward oversight—easily done. Are we agreed?
Also, this is the 21st time that the principal regulations—the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/414)—have been amended, which the Scottish Government acknowledges in the executive note. It also indicates that there will be further amendments, so consolidation at this time might be premature. Are members therefore content to refer the regulations to the consolidation working group?
Feed (Corn Gluten Feed and Brewers Grains) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2007 <br />(SSI 2007/493)<br />Education (Amendments in respect of Graduate Endowment, Student Fees and Support) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 <br />(SSI 2007/503)
The committee agreed to raise minor points on the instruments.
Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/492)<br />Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Order 2007 (SSI 2007/498)
The committee agreed that no points arose on the instruments.
National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2007 <br />(SSI 2007/501)<br />National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/502)
The committee agreed that no points arose on the instruments.
Members will also have noted that this is the eighth time that the principal regulations—the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/115) and the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/116)—have been amended in each case. Are we therefore content to refer the regulations to the consolidation working group?