Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, 22 Apr 2009
Meeting date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Official Report
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Marine Legislation
The next item of business is the forthcoming legislation on the marine environment. This committee is likely to be the lead committee for stage 1 scrutiny, and this item is on the agenda to allow committee members to take certain decisions, before the bill is formally introduced to Parliament, on the practical arrangements for our stage 1 consideration.
Paragraph 8 of paper RAE/S3/09/11/4 outlines a number of those practical arrangements. Do members agree: that the clerks should issue a call for written evidence following the introduction of the bill; that the convener should be authorised to make bids to the Conveners Group and, when necessary, the Parliamentary Bureau for any fact-finding visits or external meetings held as part of the committee's scrutiny of the bill; that the convener should be delegated the responsibility for arranging for the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to pay, under rule 12.4.3, any expenses of witnesses called to give evidence on the bill; and that, at future meetings, the committee should hold agenda items involving witness selection, the review of evidence and the consideration of drafts of the committee's stage 1 report in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you. I suspend the meeting until the cabinet secretary arrives.
Meeting suspended.
On resuming—