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Motion moved, That the Parliament agrees, further to motion S5M-17943 and under Rule 2.3.1, that the parliamentary recessdates of 10 to 25 October 2020 (inclusive) be replaced with 10 to 25 October 2020 (inclusive) with the exception of 15 October 2020, on which date busine...
For those reasons, I reiterate the calls for the Lord Advocate to appear tomorrow in the chamber, before the recess. This is urgent. Of course, if we wait until after the recess, the hearing might well have been arranged and the sub judice rule might well apply.
The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Alteration of Expiry Date) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/40) extend the expiry date of certain provisions of the Act, including schedule 19, to 24 September 2022.
However, the current substantial programme of upcoming work for the Committee, combined with the reduced number of meetings available between now and summer recess means that the Committee’s immediate capacity is significantly reduced.
Legislation Team A higher number of amending stages for Bills than usual can be expected in the period post-Easter recess up to summer recess, due to delays in some Bills and other Bills requiring to be completed by end June.
This requires that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days.
The Scottish Government wrote to the Presiding Officer explaining why the 28-day rule had not been complied with on all of these instruments.
The Committee wrote to the Scottish Government on 11 January 2021 with questions regarding the date adopted as the cut-off date in the saving and transitional provisions in regulations 19 and 20.
That will ensure that the policy intent is delivered, and it will prevent there being a gap between the substantive changes to the law and the coming into force of savings provisions on a later date. Under section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, instruments that are subject to the negative procedure must be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days.?