Chamber and committees

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 18 Sep 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Scottish Parliament Subordinate Legislation Committee Tuesday 18 September 2001 (Morning)
Home Energy Efficiency Scheme Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/267)
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) (No 4) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/297)
Holyrood Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (Draft)
Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/300)
National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/301)
Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/302)
Scottish Social Services Council (Appointments, Procedure and Access to the Register) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/303)
Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/306) Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/307)
Firemen's Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) (Scotland) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/310)
Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/311)
Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No 1) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/304)
Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No 4) (Miscellaneous) 2001 (SSI 2001/305)
Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (Commencement No 15) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/309)
Consultative Steering Group Principles

The Convener:

Should we suggest to the Executive that it should consider whether the title of the regulations is unnecessarily complex?

Ian Jenkins:

Yes.

The Convener:

We will write the Executive a nice letter suggesting that it should find a better title for the regulations.

David Mundell:

Perhaps there should be guidelines on the number of brackets in the title of an instrument.

Colin Campbell:

And on whether they should be square brackets.

The Convener:

As Ian Jenkins has said, we shall write to the Executive suggesting that the title is rather clumsy and unwieldy.