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Chamber and committees

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 19 Mar 2002

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 19, 2002


Contents


Instruments Not Laid Before the Parliament


Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2002 (SSI 2002/118)

No points arise in relation to the instrument.


Police Act 1997 (Commencement No 10) (Scotland) Order 2002 (SSI 2002/124)

No important points arise in relation to the instrument, but it would have been more helpful if the explanatory note had given a general indication of the subject matter of the provisions that are to be commenced.

That seems reasonable.


Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Applications under the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001) 2002 (SSI 2002/128)

The next instrument for consideration is the Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Applications under the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001) 2002 (SSI 2002/128). How is "sederunt" pronounced?

It is pronounced "sedurunt".

No, it is pronounced "sederunt", with the stress on the penultimate syllable.

No points arise in relation to the instrument.


Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules) Amendment (Detention and Forfeiture of Terrorist Cash) 2002<br />(SSI 2002/129)

The next instrument for consideration is the Act of Sedurunt—

It is pronounced "sederunt".

The Convener:

You are all saying the word differently. I will pronounce it "sederunt", with the stress on the first syllable, because I will remember that.

The next instrument for consideration is the Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules) Amendment (Detention and Forfeiture of Terrorist Cash) 2002 (SSI 2002/129).

Murdo, how would you pronounce "sederunt"?

I would stress the first syllable.

I would stress the second syllable.

That is because you are a Latin scholar.

I would not call myself a Latin scholar.

Would members like to vote on this issue?

Margo MacDonald and Murdo Fraser are applying a rule of thumb that does not apply to the Latin word "sederunt", which is pronounced with the stress on the middle syllable.

"Sederunt" means "they who are seated".

In a polysyllabic word, the accent should be on the antepenultimate syllable.

That should get in a column somewhere.

So the word should be pronounced with the stress on the first syllable.

No—because it is Latin, it should be pronounced with the stress on the second syllable.

No points arise in relation to the Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules) Amendment (Detention and Forfeiture of Terrorist Cash) 2002 (SSI 2002/129).

After all that!


Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules) Amendment (No 2) (Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973) 2002<br />(SSI 2002/130)

No points arise in relation to the instrument.

Meeting closed at 11:55.