Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013
The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-06644, in the name of Roseanna Cunningham, on the Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013.
The Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council and its Scottish committee were established by section 4 of and schedule 7 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.
The AJTC, including its Scottish committee, is to be abolished under provisions included in the United Kingdom Public Bodies Act 2011. The UK Government wishes to abolish it, including its Scottish committee. That is apparently as part of its commitment to reduce the number and cost of arm’s-length bodies.
The Scottish Government does not object to the abolition of the AJTC and we have brought forward alternative proposals. We are required to agree to this public body consent motion.
I move,
That the Parliament consents to the making of the Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013, a draft of which was laid before the UK Parliament on 18 December 2012 and which makes provision that would be within the legislative competence of the Parliament if it were contained within an Act of that Parliament.
The question on the motion will be put at decision time.