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The next item of business is stage 3 proceedings of the Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill.
In dealing with the amendments, members should have the bill as amended at stage 2—that is, SP bill 76A—and the marshalled list.
The division bill will sound and proceedings will be suspended for around five minutes if there is a division. The period of voting for the division will be 30 seconds. Members who wish to speak in the debate on the amendments should press their request-to-speak button or enter RTS in the chat function as soon as amendment 1 is called. Members should now refer to the marshalled list of amendments.
Section 4—What constitutes an offer
I call amendment 1, in the name of the Minister for Victims and Community Safety.
I will be brief. Section 4 specifies what constitutes an offer—that is, a proposal made to one or more persons containing sufficiently definite terms to form a contract and indicating the intention of the offeror to be bound if the offer is accepted by the other party or parties. The current drafting refers to the person making the proposal as the “proposer”. In order to avoid arguments about whether the proposer could be a third party and for reasons of consistency with terms used elsewhere in the bill, my amendment 1 substitutes the word “proposer” with the word “offeror”.
I move amendment 1.
Since no other member has sought to participate, does the minister have anything to add by way of a wind-up speech?
No, I do not.
Amendment 1 agreed to.
That ends consideration of amendments.
As members will be aware, the Presiding Officer is required under standing orders to decide whether, in her view, any provision of the bill relates to a protected subject matter—that is, whether it modifies the electoral system and franchise for Scottish parliamentary elections. In the case of the Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill, in the Presiding Officer’s view, no provision relates to a protected subject matter. Therefore, the bill does not require a supermajority to be passed at stage 3.