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Whether those powers are available to us depends on the dates on which the scheme in question would go ahead and how they would relate to the implementation dates for the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003.
In my circumstances, those requirements were difficult, because I worked for one bank, my wife worked for the stockbroking arm of another bank and my brother worked for a third bank.
If the assessor believes that more time is required for the discussions, will he be able to express that view to the committee or will the date be cast in stone? Given the timetable for the bill, the date is more or less cast in stone.
We ought not to discuss the matter further. If a hearing date has been fixed, we would be in breach of standing orders if we proceeded—there is no question about that.
Amendment 2 makes a small technical change to reflect the fact that, under the provisions of the bill, the due date of an ordinary election may not be the first Thursday in May.
The Executive has until 5 February to respond, I think—the clerk may correct me on the exact date. We would come back to the issue and discuss it after that date, once we had received the Executive response.
Its preferred second dates are 29 March for group 15 and 22 March for group 4.I invite members' views on reordering the timetable for groups 15 and 4 to accommodate the promoter and on the timetable and running order generally.