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Can you go on to the question about a new owner? The agreement will be between the local authority and the ratepayer, so if a property passes to a new owner, the new owner will have to agree to receive their bill electronically.
Is that fair enough?Members indicated agreement. New paragraph 3A(8) of schedule 2 to the 1997 act restricts the period of the scheme to five years and new paragraph 3A(9) gives the Scottish ministers a power to extend or further extend the life of the new scheme beyond five y...
However, the 2007 local government elections will involve, as we have heard, the use of the new STV system alongside the Holyrood constituency and list counts, and the use of a new, untested electronic counting system.
Although Alex Neil makes constructive points, we have no current plans to review the legislation on the matter. However, a new committee of the new Parliament after May might well take an interest in the matter.
Scottish ministers will be fully involved in procedures for implementation of the new regime and will be consulted prior to the UK Government deciding when to commence the new arrangements.
One of the reasons why the package that we hope to agree within the next few days will take time to phase in is that we need to recruit those new teachers. It will not be possible in the first year to do that, because many of the new teachers will still have to be trained.