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Amendment 384 is grouped with amendments 386 to 389, 391, 392 and 474. Amendment 384 introduces a new section that will give the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland the power to revoke a compulsory treatment order.
The committee asked for an explanation of that order-making power and, as a result, two Executive amendments were introduced at stage 2. New subsection 33A(3) states that any order under new section 33 will be subject to the affirmative procedure.
I understand the financial pressures that have led to that situation. Tesco said that it would buy the current major fire station in Aberdeen and build two new fire stations elsewhere in the city in exchange for the site.
It would not work at all. If everyone is going to buy into the new system, everyone must work with the three tiers and get involved with each of them as appropriate rather than trying to circumvent them in naive ways.