Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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Subordinate Legislation

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Water and Sewerage Services to Dwellings (Collection of Unmetered Charges by Local Authority) (Scotland) Order 2014 (SSI 2014/3)

Item 4 is subordinate legislation. The committee is asked to consider a negative instrument on water and sewerage services to dwellings, as listed on the agenda. The order makes each local authority and not Scottish Water responsible for the collection of the charges that are payable for water and sewerage services that are provided by Scottish Water. The order applies to the financial years from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2018. The order also requires each authority to make payments to Scottish Water for the charges collected.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee determined that it did not need to draw the order to the attention of Parliament. The committee will now consider any issues that it wishes to raise in reporting to Parliament on the order.

No motions to annul have been received.

As members have no comments on the instrument, does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendation in relation to the order?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you. That ends our business for today. The next meeting of the committee will be on 5 February, when we will hear evidence from the Minister for Local Government and Planning on national performance framework 3 and further evidence on the Housing (Scotland) Bill.

Meeting closed at 12:29.