Justice 1 Committee, 21 Feb 2007

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Official Report 274KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/28)

Agenda item 3 is subordinate legislation. We have three negative instruments. Members will recall that we considered the Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/610), which had several defects, so we asked the relevant minister to consider producing new regulations. The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2007 are the replacement regulations, which are now properly put. They revoke the 2006 regulations to allow for regulations that are to our satisfaction. Do members wish to comment or simply to note the regulations?

I certainly note the regulations and I thank the minister for his appropriate response. However, I am not clear that the 2007 regulations that are before us are the replacement regulations, because they simply delete the 2006 regulations. So far, so good, but we will read the new regulations with care when they arrive.

You are correct, deputy convener.

Members are content to note the regulations.

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Registration of Civil Partnerships (Prescription of Forms, Publicisation and Errors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/53)

Members have a note from the clerk that outlines what the regulations do. As no member wishes to comment, is the committee content to note the regulations?

Members indicated agreement.

We are content to note the regulations.

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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/54)

Members have a note on the third and final set of regulations. As no member wishes to comment, is the committee content to note the regulations?

Members indicated agreement.

The regulations are noted.

That is the end of our meeting. We have meetings scheduled for Tuesday 6 March, Tuesday 20 March and Wednesday 28 March—I suggest that we discuss those dates in future. We have not previously had notice of them, but in view of the Parliamentary Bureau's decision that Parliament should meet for a full day on Wednesdays, we will have to meet on Tuesdays. I propose to discuss with the clerks and perhaps the deputy convener the amount of business that we must get through between now and dissolution and how we can do that efficiently.

I say that because I am mindful that members gave up much time to complete our inquiry into the Scottish Criminal Record Office and that members thought that, in lieu of that, we would have fewer meetings. We will consider what can be done.

Meeting closed at 12:19.