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New section 12(3)(b) says that the Scottish ministers may make regulations as to"procedures to be followed at such an examination",so regulations will cover such matters—I am being advised by the legal adviser that the position is not clear.
We must question the standards and guidelines that are adopted for them and for other technologies that create EMFs.Scotland must follow countries that have recognised that electromagnetic sensitivity is a medical condition.
My point is relevant to the second of what we think are the important principles that should be followed, which is that we should legislate only when necessary.
To a certain extent, that is the procedure that will be followed, which will not lead us into a situation in which Parliament formally decides to make changes.
I find myself in a slightly difficult situation because I can follow what the minister is saying and the intention behind the extension of the period of certification, but I am concerned that there are still imponderables.
Political disagreements about the course that should be followed will always arise and we cannot produce a mechanism that will do away with all those arguments.
A point that several respondents to the committee appeared to raise was whether gifts were cumulative: whether a gift of £249 one day would come below the £250 threshold if it were followed by a further gift of £249 the next.