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Amendment 55 will allow for the making of regulations to modify the identities of enforcing authorities. Amendment 97 makes that new regulation-making power, and the regulation-making power at section 72(6), subject to the affirmative procedure.
I was not at all convinced that the town's exclusion this year under the new arrangements was justified on the basis of additional effort; indeed, there is less effort.
In your written submission, you suggest that the power to advance well-being must be used to promote local businesses. In what way should the new power be used? People forget that the business community is part of the local community.
I appreciate the concern that has given rise to these amendments, but I fully believe that, once the new tribunal system is in operation, fears that the system will not be fair to parents will be allayed.
While mink hunts are no longer based in Scotland, it is known that they visit on occasion. The last-known visit was in July 1999, when the Dove Valley mink hounds from Derbyshire hunted on the River Eden near Cupar in Fife.
Lord Sewel, in your paper, you propose that there should be a new stage involving "the Scottish parliament adopting Westminster legislation immediately prior to Royal Assent".Could you give more explanation of how you envisage that working?
We are not asking for anything unusual, although it may be new in Scotland. The committee's previous discussion did not make explicit the fact that the custodial part of a sentence includes punishment and protection of the public.