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Chamber and committees

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 30 Jan 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001


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Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (Commencement No 2) (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 2000/452)

We have on-going correspondence with the Executive on our concerns. Does anybody wish to comment?

Gordon Jackson:

It is rather amusing that, when we begin saying that the Executive might be right, it responds that it might be wrong. Until then, it was stalemate; the minute that we tell it that its position is quite good, it says, "Maybe we're wrong—we'll go and look at it again." That may be a tactical method of getting through such matters.

We can welcome that development and allow a report to be made to the Parliament.