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Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (Commencement No 2) Order 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/439)
It has been discovered that the date 2003 has appeared in the schedule to the order in place of 2004, which is the correct date. There is some concern about this. What is called the "blue" for signing copy of the order had 2004 on it but, somehow, 2003 appeared on the final copy. Because that was only discovered following last week's meeting, we have returned to the matter.
Congratulations to the person who discovered that.
It was picked up by somebody in the Executive. We need to report the matter officially, and the error will be amended. Is that agreed?
We hear a new term every week—it is "blue-for-signing copy" this week. I presume that it is so called because the actual paper is blue.
Yes. We now know a new term, Mike.
Fife National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/448)<br />Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Commencement No 1) Order 2003 <br />(SSI 2003/454)
No points of substance arise on the orders.
Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Commencement No 1) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/455)
Some interesting points have been raised in relation to the order, but there are no points of substance that we need to take forward.
It is interesting to note that the abolition of barony estates is not included. This is the first time that I was aware that barons were dignified—the "dignity of baron" is referred to in our legal brief.
I am appalled to discover that it is possible to sell the title of baron and make money out of that. That seems absolutely ludicrous, but there we go.
As the committee does not deal with any policy issues, that will stop any intervention by Murray Tosh.
I was just wondering whether a "dignity of barons" was one of those peculiar collective nouns.
We will move swiftly on.
Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Commencement No 2) (Appointed Day) Order 2003 (SSI 2003/456)
A small point is raised about a typographical error in the explanatory note, but no substantive points arise apart from that.
The regulations are interesting because they formally mark the abolition of the feudal system in Scotland.
I am looking at Murray Tosh, because we were involved in that during the first session of the Parliament, although we might have been coming at it from different sides.
They were different subjects.
Meeting closed at 10:50.
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