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It makes sense that there should be flexibility in dissolving each authority, to take into account when they have completed their duties and final accounts.
The board already pays more than 95 per cent of its accounts within 30 days, which is the normal commercial payment period, and is working to improve payment procedures further and to make payments on account as a case progresses through the legal system.
We do not wish the company's objective of laying the necessary infrastructure to be frustrated.Amendments 105 and 106 are minor Executive amendments to clear up existing problems that the water authorities experience when laying water mains.
It puts a duty on the Scottish ministers to lay a statement on the consultation at the same time as they lay the final proposed designation order—the draft designation order as it will technically be known.
My reading of the provision is that if a court "may take into account" the co-operation that has been given, it may also not take the co-operation into account and ignore it completely.
But is it not possible under the super-affirmative procedure to lay a draft before the Parliament for amendment, and then for an amended draft to be returned to the Parliament for approval?