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Chamber and committees

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 25 Jan 2000

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000


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Seeds (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations (SSI 2000/1)

It appears that there are problems with this instrument.

Bristow Muldoon:

There is an inconsistency in the instrument in that the second column of schedules1 to 5 is blank. It might be that the Executive's intention is that the heading of column 2 in each schedule should apply to all the items underneath it. It is not clear, however, whether that is the intention. Schedule 6 shows when all charges are payable, but questions could be raised about when any of the charges mentioned in schedules 1 to 5 should be paid, because that information is not recorded against the individual charges that are listed. There is no indication that the headings are meant to apply to all the charges. We should draw that to the Executive's attention—it is something that I imagine it would wish to amend and clarify before the instrument is finally approved.