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Scottish Transport Group (Dissolution) Order 2002 (SSI 2002/263)
The order has been in front of the committee before. The intention is that the committee draws the attention of the lead committee to the order, because there is defective drafting. Some people might think that the committee is nit-picking since the Scottish Transport Group is no more, but it is necessary to dissolve such bodies in an orderly, correct and legal fashion. Although the failure to repeal spent references in part of the dissolution order has no practical effect, it is untidy and we do not want that to continue.
We should be grateful to the Executive for apologising in its letter for its errors. We should point out in our report that although the drafting is defective, that is not material.
I have said that. The defective drafting has no practical effect. We usually point out such issues to the lead committee. It is good that the Executive admitted that it had not tied up the matter properly.
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