Rural Affairs Committee, 18 Jan 2000

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Official Report 183KB pdf

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Beef Bones (Scotland) Regulations 1999 (SSI 1999/186)

The Rural Affairs Committee has been named as a secondary committee to consider the Beef Bones (Scotland) Regulations 1999 (SSI 1999/186); the Health and Community Care Committee is the lead committee. The regulations arise under the negative procedure, which means that unless a formal motion to annul the order is agreed, it will come into effect. No such motion has been lodged to date, so the purpose of today's discussion is to examine the instrument, which will inform the report that we will make to the Health and Community Care Committee.

Two explanatory notes are attached to this Scottish statutory instrument. The first is from the clerks; it sets out the dates. The second is from the Scottish Executive rural affairs department; it was provided at our request and explains the order. A third note at the end of the instrument appears at the end of all subordinate legislation. We have not asked any officials to attend for this discussion. Are there any comments?

Mike, you are not encouraging Alasdair, are you?

No.

Are members content with the proposal? Can we conclude that the committee does not wish to make any recommendation?

Members indicated agreement.