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Draft Guidance Subject <br />to Annulment
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and Sustainable Development, Statutory Guidance to SEPA made under Section 31 of the Environment Act 1995 (SE/2004/257)
We now to come item 4. No big points arise. The only point that has been raised is about the reference to "prorogation", which is not a term that we use, and the need to insert the term "recess". In fact, the quicker that that is done, the better, as the recess period has implications for the orders. Is the committee agreed that that recommendation is acted on?
For the sake of the record can we ask what mechanism is available—I suppose that it would be the House of Commons—to amend the legislation in question? Perhaps our legal adviser could advise the committee on that.
It would be a consequential modification order under the Scotland Act 1998.
That is a relatively straightforward procedure.
Yes, fairly straightforward. I do not know how long it would take.
Our legal advice is that we suggest that that is put in motion and that the matter should not just be left. Are we agreed on that?