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Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Item 2 is the first evidence session on the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill, for which we have allocated an hour.
Scottish Criminal Record Office Good afternoon. I open the Justice 1 Committee's 14th meeting in 2006, which has been specially convened to allow the committee to agree several matters in relation to our Scottish Criminal Record Office inquiry.
According to the current guidance, which was revised in 2002, there should be a facility for a formal public consultation at stage 1, as opposed to what you described, which is community group liaison.
At the moment, the majority of the funds will be available for next year and the year after—there will be £1 million for each of those two years—so we will be able to get modules up and running well before the commencement of many of the bill's provisions.
Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/1)Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/2) I am sorry that we overran a bit on the first evidence session.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee advises us that regulation 2(1) is retrospective and that, because there is no retrospective power in the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986, there are doubts about whether the regulations are ultra vires.
Environmental Levy on Plastic Bags (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Good morning. I welcome members, witnesses who join us by video link from Ireland, and members of the public and press.
I thank you for coming along today, and I indicate to everyone that we hope to sign off our report on 1 February. Anne, you offered to help us by telling us how we got here from the Kemp commission.