Health and Sport Committee, 16 Sep 2009
Meeting date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Food Irradiation (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (SSI/2009/261)
We will move on to the next item quickly, as we have a lot of work to get through today and a debate in the chamber in the afternoon.
The next item of business is consideration of a negative instrument, copies of which members have before them, along with a note from the clerk.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 8 September and drew our attention to several defects in their drafting and scope. It noted that the regulations breached the 21-day rule in relation to the laying and coming into force of a negative instrument, but it accepted the Scottish Government's explanation of why that had occurred. It also noted that the regulations raised certain devolution issues on the transposition of European Union directives. The Scottish Government has given an undertaking to introduce an amending instrument to address those matters.
As members have no comments to make, do we agree that we are content with the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting continued in private until 12:28.