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Committee reports Date published: 22 April 2020

Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 21 April 2020 - Annex E

Doing so will support future economic and societal recovery, will ensure consistency of approach across the planning system and thus certainty for developers and the public, and will maintain the ability of the Energy Consents Unit to continue to process applications efficiently. As we are in recess I have copied this letter to the convener of the Economy, ...
Committee reports Date published: 24 March 2021

Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 23 March 2021 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee’s remit: instruments drawn to the attention of the lead committee

This requires that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than 4 days. The Scottish Government wrote to the Presiding Officer explaining why the 28-day rule had not been complied with on all of these instruments.
Committee reports Date published: 20 January 2021

Subordinate Legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 19 January 2021 - Scrutiny of instruments under the Committee’s remit: instruments drawn to the attention of the lead committee

The Committee wrote to the Scottish Government on 11 January 2021 with questions regarding the date adopted as the cut-off date in the saving and transitional provisions in regulations 19 and 20.
Last updated: 27 November 2025

Committee debates

In summary, eight committee debates have already been scheduled, with a further debate yet to be scheduled before or after the Christmas recess. A further seven bids have been received with only three half sitting days remaining in the allocation for committee debates. 6.
Official Report Meeting date: 25 May 2023

Meeting of the Parliament 25 May 2023

I will update Liam McArthur when a date is in place for the first meeting.
Last updated: 2 May 2025

Guidance on Chamber Business

Dates of recess, and days on which the office of the Clerk is open, are listed on the Parliament’s website, under About / Recess dates.
Official Report Meeting date: 20 September 2022

Finance and Public Administration Committee 20 September 2022

In effect, therefore, the first practicable date on which to make and lay the order was 1 July.
Official Report Meeting date: 25 September 2024

Meeting of the Parliament 25 September 2024

Two days later—funnily enough, once we had all exited the building for the summer recess—and guess what? Delays were announced and—I give a spoiler alert to colleagues—the ship is still to be handed over to CalMac, and it is nearly October.
Official Report Meeting date: 26 April 2022

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 26 April 2022

Also in relation to this instrument, there has been a failure to comply with section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, which requires that instruments subject to the negative procedure are laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days.
Official Report Meeting date: 22 February 2022

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 22 February 2022

The regulations came up in the committee before we knocked off for the February recess. There were two options for the instrument to come to us.

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