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Whether doing so would be legal becomes too technical a question.The Faculty of Advocates has considered what the Scotland Act 1998 allows the Parliament to do and what that means in reality.
A procurator fiscal has the right to order a child's body to be taken and retained if there is any doubt about the cause of death, to find out the cause of death. Children in Scotland need that protection, just as adults in Scotland do.
However, if we are to do our duty by the project's supporters and objectors and keep in mind Scotland's interests, we have little choice but to accept what we have been told by the clerk and legal advisers: we will need to put up with the delay.
We will raise those points with Executive ministers and with the European Commission.We now move to agenda item 8, on the promotion of Scotland worldwide inquiry. The committee decided earlier to take the item in private.
We have investigated the Registers of Scotland and have found all sorts of rights registered in relation to properties adjoining and quite some distance away from the level-crossing.