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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) <br />(West Coast) (Scotland) Order 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/244)<br />Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) <br />(West Coast) (No 2) (Scotland) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/245)
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (Scotland) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/260)
From the Subordinate Legislation Committee's previous work, I gather that a proposal has been made that we might consider different ways of treating orders similar to these three. We might consider how such orders might be made less demanding on a committee and the Parliament. Because that point has been made, I propose that we ask the clerk and the legal team to consider alternative procedures for this type of order. More orders similar to these will come before the committee and we can consider the implications of moving to a different procedure. Is that agreed?
Before we agree to that, it is important to reflect that concerns were raised in the more substantive discussion during the legal briefing that any alternative procedures ought to protect fully members' ability to react to any Parliamentary Bureau motions giving effect to statutory instruments. When we raise the proposal with the Executive we should make it clear that our objective will be to streamline procedures and not in any sense—whether deliberately or accidentally—to diminish a member's right to move against a bureau motion.
Are we all agreed on that?
No points arise on the orders.