Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 21 Jun 2000
Meeting date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Justice and Home Affairs Committee Wednesday 21 June 2000 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:34]
Good morning, everyone. I advise the committee that a fair number of negative statutory instruments that have been laid recently are likely to be referred to us to deal with. I will not read out their titles, but about seven of them are headed our way some time soon. I warn members that they will pop up on our agenda shortly.
I am not sure whether I have said this before, but at the conveners liaison group I suggested as a possible topic for committee business in the chamber this committee's report on the Carbeth hutters. We cannot have that debate before the summer recess, because the Executive needs time to frame a response to the report. I have indicated that I do not think that we will require more than an hour and a half to debate it.
I remind you, convener, that I was a dissenting voice in that report.
I am sure that you will remind us of that if there is a debate in the chamber. I wanted simply to advise members of possible future business that would relate directly to them. Committee business is a rather special kind of chamber business, and we will have to see how it goes.
I believe that the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000 is to be published any day now, if members wish to get their signed copies framed as a memento. That is tangible evidence of work that has been done.