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Items in Private The next item is whether the committee agrees to discuss its stage 1 report on the International Criminal Court (Scotland) Bill in private at our next meeting.
National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Amendment (No 3) (Scotland) Regulations 2001(SSI 2001/138) A point that has been raised on the regulations is whether, along with the italic headnote, the explanatory note should indicate that the regulations replace preceding defective regulations.
Subordinate Legislation The committee has to consider a negative instrument, the Highlands and Islands Agricultural Processing and Marketing Grants etc (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/40).
Although Janis is not a member of the committee, she has an interest in the subject and will be welcome.I also welcome officials from Audit Scotland to the first meeting of the Audit Committee in Glasgow.
I am probably the most unpleasant thing next to that: I was a practising solicitor and a member of the Law Society of Scotland. Are today's declarations further to those that we made in the Justice and Home Affairs Committee?
Those items are: item 9, the consultation on public sector ombudsmen in Scotland; item 10, the Scottish Executive joint future group report; and item 11, the committee's future work plan.We can handle those items in a couple of ways.
I wish all committee members, staff and our colleagues in Audit Scotland a very good and successful new year.I have received no apologies from members.Before we move on to the agenda items, I welcome Keith Raffan to the committee.
I have received apologies from Donald Gorrie.I ask members to agree to take item 4 in private, so that we can discuss some of the practical arrangements for our water inquiry, such as the specifications for our adviser and the details of our meeting in the north of Scotland. It is usual practice for such discussions to be taken in private.