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Under agenda item 3, we are considering one instrument, on which an issue has been raised.
Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Local Services Franchises Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/137)
The instrument seeks to minimise the potential disruption of services and ensure that passengers have continuity of service should operators seek to vary or cancel local services before a franchising framework can come into operation. In correspondence with the Scottish Government, which was published alongside the papers for this meeting, the committee queried an apparent minor drafting error in the instrument. In response, the Scottish Government confirmed that there is a minor drafting error in regulation 7(1), which it proposes to correct by correction slip.
In regulation 7(1), the reference to “paragraphs (2) to (4)” should be a reference to “paragraphs (2) and (3)”. Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground?
Members indicated agreement.