Subordinate Legislation Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Official Report
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Public Bodies Act 2011
Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (Abolition) Order 2012 [Draft]
The next item is consideration of a draft United Kingdom Government order under section 9 of the UK Public Bodies Act 2011. This is the second such order that the committee has considered.
As members will recall, section 9 of the 2011 act requires the Scottish Parliament’s consent to any order that falls within its legislative competence. The Subordinate Legislation Committee will consider and report on such orders on the same grounds as any other laid before the Parliament.
The draft order abolishes the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances, which will be reconstituted as an independent scientific advisory committee with new terms of reference. The list of revocations in the schedule to the draft order does not include the reference to the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances contained in the schedule to the Scottish Parliament (Disqualification) Order 2010 (SI 2010/2476). The draft order should revoke that reference, although the omission will not adversely affect the order’s operation and there might be a suitable opportunity to remove the reference using existing powers at a future date.
Does the committee therefore agree to draw the draft order to the Parliament’s attention on the general reporting ground?
Members indicated agreement.
14:52
Meeting continued in private until 15:36.