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A key part of the bill is consideration of ways in which straightforward transactions can be simplified in order to reduce the huge amount of bureaucracy that surrounds simple and straightforward transactions by the Crofters Commission.
The first consists of the leisure trusts and so on, in which there are a small number of high-value transactions and large amounts of money are going in to deliver a service as a whole.
It is worth noting that, without question, one major criticism that came from a wide range of individuals and organisations was that too much of the Parliament's business is transacted in private. There was a real sense of disappointment about that.
If the committee is minded to follow the course that you propose, would that imply that we adjourn our consideration of the petition, perhaps for six months, so that it does not die? We could then revert to it. Yes.
The Law Society of Scotland argued that a default affirmative procedure, or use of the super-affirmative procedure, might be the more appropriate form of parliamentary scrutiny rather than the provisions set out in s4.iiiWritten submission, The Law Society of Scotland.