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Draft Instruments Subject <br />to Approval
Joint Inspections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (draft)
No substantive points arise on the regulations. The draft regulations correct an error that we identified in the principal regulations. It is a slightly unusual procedure to follow in that the amendment regulations correct an instrument that is still in draft before Parliament and has yet to be made. However, there is no difficulty here, other than a minor point, which we can raise informally.
Do we know why the Executive has done it this way, rather than withdrawing the original regulations and re-laying them?
Timing.
Those of us on the Education Committee know about this. The regulations are part of the new child protection scheme. There is quite a degree of sensitivity over the timetable, some of which was initially delayed. The Executive is keen that things should move forward smoothly, but it recognised the embarrassing flaw that this committee pointed out at our previous meeting. The Executive was happy to fix that flaw, but it did not want to delay the timetable.
Thank you for that explanation.
Private Water Supplies (Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (draft)
No substantive points arise, although it is pointed out for the interest of members that the enabling power for the regulations is an open power, in which the parent act has allowed for a choice of procedures. In this instance, the Executive has chosen the affirmative procedure. There is a minor point, which can be raised informally. Are members happy with that?
Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Office or Body as Specified Authority) Order 2006 (draft)
It is suggested that we might wish to ask the Executive when it intends to make the order and to bring it into force. That will be critical in terms of the vires of the order. Are members happy to do that?
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