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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015


Contents


British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution

The Presiding Officer (Tricia Marwick)

The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-13052, in the name of John Swinney, on the financial resolution to the British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill, agrees to any expenditure of a kind referred to in Rule 9.12.3(b) of the Parliament’s Standing Orders arising in consequence of the Act.—[Dr Alasdair Allan.]

The Presiding Officer

The question on the motion will be put at decision time.

I now invite John Finnie, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, to move a motion without notice to bring forward decision time to now.

Motion moved,

That, under Rule 11.2.4, Decision Time be brought forward to 4.48 pm.—[John Finnie.]

Motion agreed to.