Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Official Report 480KB pdf

---

Subordinate Legislation

---

Census (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/211)

---

Census (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/215)

Item 6 is consideration of two negative instruments on the census. Does anyone have any comments?

I have no specific comments, other than to note that the briefing paper says that we will get an oral update on the Subordinate Legislation Committee’s report. I wonder whether the clerk has anything to tell us.

My apologies—I should have asked the clerk to give us an update.

I am happy to do so. I apologise for not doing so before the meeting, but the relevant meeting of the Subordinate Legislation Committee took place only yesterday, so we were not able to include the relevant information in the paperwork for today’s meeting.

The Subordinate Legislation Committee had raised a number of concerns about the Census (Scotland) Regulations 2010, which were corrected by the Census (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010. Yesterday, the Subordinate Legislation Committee considered the Census (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010, was happy with the changes that had been made and the speed with which that had been done, and raised no further issues of concern.

On that basis, do members agree that the committee has no recommendations to make on SSI 2010/211 or SSI 2010/215?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes today’s meeting; we meet again next week.

Meeting closed at 12:42.