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However, we are not arguing the principle of the matter.Section 26(7) inserts new subsection (2C) into section 6 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980 and concerns the power to make regulations determining reasonable cost.
Without going into detail, we can say that the Executive has supplied the further explanation that we asked for on points 1, 5, 7 and 10 from last week's legal briefing on the draft regulations.
The prison needs proper visit facilities, but all the individuals to whom we spoke felt that, in many other ways, they have secure, quality visits—those who receive visits.
More than 100,000 of those will be paid staff, for whom a fee for checking will be charged. If that fee is set at £26, which is one of the levels that is mooted in the financial memorandum, that would bring a new cost to the sector of £3 million.