Subordinate Legislation Committee, 14 Sep 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Official Report 138KB pdf

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Instruments Subject to Approval

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 4) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/319)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No 2) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/322)

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 5) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/323)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 6) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/330)

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Irish Sea) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/340)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 7) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/341)

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 8) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/344)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No 3) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/352)

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(West Coast) (No 9) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/359)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning)<br />(East Coast) (No 2) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/378)

No points have been identified on the orders.

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Fishing Vessels<br />(Satellite-tracking Devices) (Scotland) Scheme 2004 (SSI 2004/379)

The scheme is the result of a European Commission requirement and it relates to the grants system. There are several questions about the scheme.

The first is to ask why copies of the EC legislation were not submitted with the scheme. Our legal adviser had to go to the internet to find it. Secondly, to what do the words from "or which" to the end of the definition of a Scottish fishing vessel in paragraph 3(4) of the scheme refer? Thirdly, what is the purpose of the reference in paragraph 10 to paragraph 9, which deals with requests for assistance to authorised officers? Why cannot paragraph 9 stand alone?

Are there any further points?

On your first question, convener, we should not argue that the Executive has to provide everything to the committee on paper. It would have been reasonable for it to have provided the internet address so that we could have accessed the legislation easily. If we are talking about a scheme that deals with satellite-tracking devices, it is a bit ridiculous to insist that we get some old-technology paper in front of us.

Point taken. Perhaps it would be sufficient for us to get the link. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.