Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Official Report 459KB pdf
Contents
- Attendance
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Instrument Procedure and Category
- Instruments subject to Affirmative Procedure
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Instruments subject to Affirmative Procedure
Under agenda item 3, we are considering four instruments. This agenda item was amended on Friday, due to the following two emergency Scottish statutory instruments being laid by the Scottish Government.
Private Landlord Registration (Modification) (Scotland) Order 2022 [Draft]
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022 [Draft]
The aim of the instruments is to ensure that the appropriate level of disclosure checks can be undertaken on all individuals who are being assessed as suitable to provide accommodation under the homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme, to help provide safer housing options for those fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The Scottish Government is seeking to have the SSIs come into force on 12 May 2022. As I have said before, the committee needs sufficient time to properly consider each and every SSI that is laid before the Parliament to make sure that it is correct as a matter of law. However, members will have seen a letter from Gerard Hart, the chief executive of Disclosure Scotland, explaining the reasons for the urgency of the instruments. I have allowed them to be added to today’s agenda, but I nevertheless reserve the right for the committee to look at the instruments again next week should any issues subsequently be found. We could then write to the Scottish Government to highlight those issues.
Taking that into account, is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.
Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2022 [Draft]
Non-Domestic Rates (Valuation Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 [Draft]
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.