Local Government and Transport Committee, 31 Jan 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Official Report 192KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Road User Charging (Liability for Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/651)<br />Road User Charging (Penalty Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/652)

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Road User Charging Schemes (Keeping of Accounts and Relevant Expenses) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/654)

Agenda item 2 is subordinate legislation. To update members, I inform the committee that David Davidson has lodged motions to annul each set of road-user charging regulations. In light of that, and given that we normally invite the minister to address instruments if a motion to annul has been lodged, I propose that we consider the regulations at next week's committee meeting, which will keep us within the 40-day timescale.

I add that the three sets of regulations have been subject to misrepresentation in the media today. They do not relate in any way to the controversy about the Forth Estuary Transport Authority's proposals to increase tolls on the Forth road bridge.

The regulations will come before the committee next Tuesday.

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M77 (Malletsheugh) (Speed Limit) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/655)

The Subordinate Legislation Committee has drawn the committee's attention to the regulations; its comments are contained in an annex to the paper on the regulations. However, no member of the committee has raised points on the regulations and no motion to annul has been lodged. On that basis, do members agree that we have nothing to report on the regulations?

Members indicated agreement.