Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Assistance to Registered Social Landlords and Other Persons) (Grants) Amendment Regulations 2013 (SSI 2013/7)
Under agenda item 5 we will further consider a negative instrument. We considered the regulations at the previous meeting, and there is a link to them from the agenda.
The regulations amend the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Assistance to Registered Social Landlords and Other Persons) (Grants) Regulations 2004, which provide the mechanics for several grant schemes that are operated by local authorities.
In considering the regulations at last week’s meeting, it was agreed that, following concerns that the Subordinate Legislation Committee expressed about the lack of consultation with representatives of local authorities on certain provisions, the committee would obtain comments from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government and further consider the regulations at this meeting.
Members will note from their papers that the Scottish Government has provided a written submission, which includes a response from COSLA on the issues that the Subordinate Legislation Committee flagged up. Members should have received that by email yesterday. The responses from the Scottish Government and COSLA confirm that they are content with the amendments.
The committee is invited to consider any issues that it wishes to raise in reporting to the Parliament on the regulations. No motion to annul has been received in relation to the regulations.
Do members have any comments?
Given that COSLA is quite happy with the regulations and that the evidence that the two local authorities have given seems to reflect COSLA’s position, I think that, although perhaps COSLA ought to have been consulted, that is not material to the particular regulations.
Does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
Tenant Information Packs (Assured Tenancies) (Scotland) Order 2013 (SSI 2013/20)
Under agenda item 6 we will consider SS1 2013/20, which is a negative instrument. There is a link from the agenda to the order.
The order prescribes documents that landlords are required to provide to tenants under assured tenancies in a tenant information pack. It clarifies that documents must be provided to a tenant free of charge and that they can be provided electronically if the tenant requests that.
The committee is invited to consider any issues that it wishes to raise in reporting to the Parliament on the order. No motion to annul has been received in relation to the order, and the Subordinate Legislation Committee did not raise any concerns in relation to it.
As members have no comments to make, does the committee agree that we do not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the order?
Members indicated agreement.
That concludes the public part of the meeting. We will now go into private session to consider the evidence that we have heard on the Forth Road Bridge Bill and “Low Carbon Scotland: Meeting our Emissions Reduction Targets 2013-2027—The Draft Second Report on Proposals and Policies”.
12:26
Meeting continued in private until 12:38.