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Instruments Subject <br />to Annulment
Electricity (Applications for Consent) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/18)
Although no substantive points arise on the regulations, one minor point is that the drafting with regard to generating capacity could have been better. Do members agree to write informally to the Executive on the matter?
Members indicated agreement.
Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Order 2006 (SSI 2006/26)
No points arise on the order.
Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 <br />(SSI 2006/27)
Do members wish to ask the Executive why it did not take this opportunity to update the principal order's references to the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 (SI 1993/1320), which was revoked and replaced by the Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005 (SSI 2005/613)? That would have been helpful.
Members indicated agreement.
Private Landlord Registration (Information and Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/28)
No particular points arise on the amendment regulations. However, members will have received Johann Lamont's letter, which gives a rather full explanation of why the 21-day rule was breached and provides information that the Communities Committee received with regard to the deadline. As members will see, the Executive tried very hard to minimise the period during which the higher fee would be applicable.
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