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Amendments 53 and 54 perform the same function for transferred life prisoners with a provisional release date or a recommended provisional release date.
Today is 15 November, although I have a slightly different date on my briefing. The first item on the agenda is to ask that item 8 be taken in private.
If the draft order is not withdrawn by the relevant date, 5 December, we would have to convey our views on the instrument to the lead committee and the Parliament.
That said, I will go through each instrument in turn.On this order, the legal advisers have raised questions about what happens to existing provisions and the order's intended commencement date. We should simply ask the questions that have been suggested.
We have to work to the EU implementation dates that we are set. Ultimately, where legislation originates in Brussels, our target date will be the date that is set out in that legislation.In the vast majority of cases, we implement legislation on the date that is set out in Brussels.
Therefore, if concealed assets are discovered at a later date, the Crown will be able to apply to the court to have the confiscation order varied, thus depriving the accused of the proceeds of crime.
Glasgow Housing Association (Evaluation) To ask the Scottish Executive what its evaluation is of the progress that Glasgow Housing Association has made to date in meeting its stated objectives.
Is not it a fact that the minister has failed to provide up-to-date statistics because such statistics would reveal the embarrassing truth that he has not a snowball's chance in hell of reaching the targets by next year?
As the minister will know, a great number of letters of objection were sent to the energy consents unit prior to the 28 September submission date. That was because of confusion over information that was given on the Scottish and Southern Energy website.