Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill

The next item of business is consideration of legislative consent motion S5M-14825, in the name of Humza Yousaf, on the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament agrees that the relevant provisions of the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 27 June 2018, relating to the making of overseas production orders, the people who may apply for orders, the requirements for the making of orders, the content and effect of orders, the variation or revocation of orders, the inclusion of non-disclosure requirements in orders, restrictions on the service of orders, the retention of electronic data and its use as evidence, procedural matters to be determined by court rules, the requirements to notify holders of confidential journalistic data of applications for orders in relation to that data, the effect of notices of application, the means of serving an order, and definitions for the purposes of the Bill, so far as these matters fall within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and alter the executive competence of the Lord Advocate, should be considered by the UK Parliament.—[Humza Yousaf].