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The Scottish Parliament is now dissolved ahead of the election on Thursday 7 May 2026.

During dissolution, there are no MSPs and no parliamentary business can take place.

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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014


Contents


Parliamentary Bureau Motions

The Presiding Officer (Tricia Marwick)

The next item of business is consideration of six Parliamentary Bureau motions. I ask Joe FitzPatrick to move motions S4M-11770 to S4M-11773, on the approval of Scottish statutory instruments; to move motion S4M-11774, on committee membership; and to move motion S4M-11775, on a substitution on a committee.

Motions moved,

That the Parliament agrees that the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments and Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Marriage Between Civil Partners (Procedure for Change and Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that—

Annabel Goldie be appointed to replace Alex Johnstone as a member of the Welfare Reform Committee and

Alex Johnstone be appointed to replace Annabel Goldie as a member of the Devolution (Further Powers) Committee.

That the Parliament agrees that Annabel Goldie be appointed as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party substitute on the Equal Opportunities Committee.—[Joe FitzPatrick.]

The questions on the motions will be put at decision time.