Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016

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Parliamentary Bureau Motions

The next item of business is consideration of four Parliamentary Bureau motions. I invite Joe FitzPatrick to move motion S5M-01691, on a variation of standing orders, and motions S5M-01694 to S5M-01696, on approval of Scottish statutory instruments.

Motions moved,

That the Parliament agrees that, in relation to First Minister’s Questions on 6 October—

(i) in the first sentence of Rule 13.7.A1 “30 minutes” be replaced with “45 minutes”;

and

(ii) in Rule 13.6.2 “6” be replaced with “8”.

That the Parliament agrees that the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Part 4 and Part 5 Complaints) Revocation Order 2016 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Prohibited Procedures on Protected Animals (Exemptions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 [draft] be approved.

That the Parliament agrees that the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) as Specified Authority) Order 2016 [draft] be approved.—[Joe FitzPatrick.]

The questions on the motions will be put at decision time, to which we now come.