Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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Parliamentary Bureau Motions

The next item of business is consideration of six Parliamentary Bureau motions.

I ask Joe FitzPatrick to move motions S4M-15547 to S4M-15549, on approval of a Scottish statutory instrument, en bloc, and motions S4M-15550, S4M-15544 and S4M-15545, on the suspension of various standing orders and the designation of a lead committee, en bloc.

Motions moved,

That the Parliament agrees that the Police Act 1997 and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 Remedial (No. 2) Order 2015 be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2016 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Water Environment (Amendment of Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990: Contaminated Land) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that, subject to its agreement to the general principles of the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill, for the purposes of further consideration of the Bill—

(a) Rules 9.5.3A and 9.5.3B of Standing Orders be suspended;

(b) the following be substituted for Rule 9.10.2A of Standing Orders:

“Subject to paragraph 6, where a member intends to move an amendment to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill at stage 3, that member shall give notice of the amendment by lodging it with the Clerk no later than 12:00 on Friday 4 March 2016.”

(c) in Rule 9.7.8A of Standing Orders, the word “second” be substituted for the word “fourth”;

(d) in each of Rules 9.7.8B and 9.7.10 of Standing Orders, the words “third sitting day before the day” be substituted for the words “end of the second week before the week”.

That the Parliament agrees that, subject to its agreement to the general principles of the Budget (Scotland) (No.5) Bill, for the purposes of further consideration of the Bill, in Rule 9.10.2A of Standing Orders, the word “third” be substituted for the word “fourth” in both places where it occurs.

That the Parliament agrees that the Finance Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.—[Joe FitzPatrick.]

The questions on the motions will be put at decision time, to which we now come.