Communities Committee, 21 Dec 2005
Meeting date: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Scottish Homes (Dissolution) Order 2005 (SSI 2005/609)<br />Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2005 <br />(SSI 2005/594)
Agenda item 3 is subordinate legislation. The committee will consider two Scottish statutory instruments: the Scottish Homes (Dissolution) Order 2005 and the Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2005. Both orders were laid on 25 November 2005 and are subject to the negative procedure. Copies of the instruments have been circulated to members. The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered them at its meeting on 6 December and had no points to raise.
The Scottish Homes (Dissolution) Order 2005 specifies the date of the dissolution of Scottish Homes as 31 December 2005. The Communities Committee and its predecessor committee considered previous instruments on the winding up of Scottish Homes and had no comments to make. Do members have any comments on SSI 2005/609?
No.
In that case, is the committee content with the order?
Members indicated agreement.
The committee will therefore make no recommendation in its report to the Parliament.
The Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2005 increases the limit of annual value from £24,725 to £28,000 for the purposes of section 100(3)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. The act allows owner-occupiers of land blighted by a planning authority to require the appropriate authority to acquire their property in certain circumstances. That is subject to the provision, in the case of a non-resident owner-occupier, that the annual value of the non-domestic property does not exceed the prescribed limit, which will be increased by the order.
Do members have any comments on SSI 2005/594?
No.
Is the committee content with the order?
Members indicated agreement.
In that case, the committee will make no recommendation on the order in its report to the Parliament.
I ask members to agree that we should report to the Parliament our decisions on the two orders. Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting continued in private until 12:48.