Contents
- Attendance
- Subordinate Legislation
- Scrutiny of NHS Boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles)
- Scrutiny of NHS Boards (NHS Ayrshire and Arran)
Subordinate Legislation
National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No 2) Regulations 2017 Amendment Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/123)
National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/124)
Good morning and welcome to the 16th meeting in 2018 of the Health and Sport Committee.
I ask everyone to ensure that their mobile phones are off or on silent. Please do not use mobile devices for photography or to record proceedings.
The first item on our agenda is subordinate legislation. We have two instruments that are subject to negative procedure to consider. The first is the National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No 2) Regulations 2017 Amendment Regulations 2018.
The purpose of the instrument is to correct an error that was identified by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee at its meeting on 16 January 2018.
No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged. The DPLR Committee has considered the amendment instrument and determined that it did not need to draw Parliament’s attention to the instrument on any grounds that are within its remit.
There are no comments from members, so does the committee agree to make no recommendation on the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
That is agreed. Thank you.
The second instrument is the National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2018. No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged. However, the DPLR Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 8 May and agreed to draw Parliament’s attention to the instrument on general reporting grounds in respect of four drafting errors.
The Scottish Government has indicated in correspondence that it intends to correct the errors at the next legislative opportunity, which will be in late summer this year.
Clearly it is disappointing that again, this consolidation instrument contains a number of minor errors, which requires that another instrument come to the committee at a later date. As members have no comments, does the committee agree to make no recommendation on the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
That is agreed. Thank you.