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Possession of Pesticides (Scotland) Order 2005 (SSI 2005/66) Is the committee content to report the order on the ground of failure to follow proper legislative practice, as mentioned in our third point to the Executive?
Presiding Officer's Ruling I wish to make one point of clarification, following the issues that were raised by Duncan McNeil and other members before lunch time.
We need to say in our report that the drafting does not follow proper legislative practice. The wording does not affect the outcome for the consumer, but it does not follow good practice.
There is an argument for collapsing the two into each other, because in going for free nursing care we are following a sort of international definition of nursing."
Therefore, I was somewhat unhappy about that Executive response.The Executive has set ambitious targets—for example, to eliminate poverty by 2020, or whenever. I suspect that we would all like that target to be achieved.
Those were the result of an extensive consultation following the recommendation of the housing improvement task force that there should be voluntary accreditation schemes for private landlords.