Subordinate Legislation Committee, 25 Mar 2003

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Official Report 85KB pdf

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Instruments Subject to Annulment

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Instruments Subject <br />to Annulment

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TSE (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/198)

These particular regulations correct defects that the committee identified in the principal regulations. That has been done to our satisfaction.

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National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/200)

We raised a number of questions on these regulations with the Executive. For a start, we asked whether, in regulation 1(4)(b), the Executive intended to refer to "regulation 1(2)" instead of "paragraph 1(2)" of the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/642). In fact, we asked the Executive several questions about the numbering of paragraphs in the regulations and about how various paragraphs and subparagraphs relate to one another.

The Executive has graciously admitted that we were right and has undertaken to correct those errors. It says that the matter was simply an oversight and that it will revoke the regulations before they come into force. The amending regulations are being prepared and will be available either today or tomorrow. Moreover, they will be distributed free of charge, which is excellent.

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National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/201)

These regulations make amendments that are complementary to the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/200). Apart from a few errors in the footnotes, which will be intimated informally, the regulations are okay.

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Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Register of Interests) Amendment Regulations 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/203)

No points have been raised on the regulations.