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The final item on the agenda is instruments not laid before the Parliament. Points were raised on the order.
We sent the order back because it was a mishmash. It will come into force on 10 November, which is still a delay, although not for substantive policy considerations. We must seek clarification that the public have not suffered undue disadvantage because of that delay. The order certainly needed to be sorted out.
The Executive has not revoked the initial faulty order, but has dealt with it in the footnotes and the explanatory note for the new order. If an order is to be superseded because it is patently wrong, there is an argument that it should be revoked so that people are not left to scramble through the mishmash of two orders to work out that the first one is inappropriate and has been superseded. I understand the Executive's position, but the failure to revoke the first order does not make life easier for those who are trying to find out what the situation is.
Meeting closed at 11:23.