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However, in May, when I asked you in the chamber when the group would publish its report, you stated:"The group expects to submit its report before the summer recess. I will publish the report in due course thereafter."
Secondly, we asked about the purpose and effect of the reference to the date of making an application, and about the three-week time limit specified in regulation 6(3).
The changes that we propose will ensure that eligibility is kept up to date and that no one falls out of the legal aid net because of the effects of inflation.The second issue is legal aid in relation to the new asylum and immigration tribunal and obstructive witnesses.
The grant scheme that has been introduced is worth while. The dates are important and the reduction in the length of the closed season has lessened the burden that the regulations would have imposed on Scottish agriculture.
There might be particular difficulties given that Westminster operates under a different timetable of recesses and elections.The issue of co-ordination will require a lot of thought and, I suspect, a big change in practice, and not just in the Scottish Executive.
After the scheme is approved, the uncertainty will be about the date on which the move occurs. That is a bit less uncertain than what you have suffered to date.
Will the courts accept that the original date means the new date—who knows? It seems strange that the Executive is not changing all the other commencements at the same time.