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Will the courts accept that the original date means the new date—who knows? It seems strange that the Executive is not changing all the other commencements at the same time.
One of those situations is that, as I understand it, the Presiding Officer has a power to vary the date of the Scottish election by one month either side of the normal date.
So far, our ideas have had a most encouraging reception when we have discussed them with everyone involved—the banks, the manufacturers and the big commercial operators.
The amendments are about preventing the raiding of the children's piggy bank. They are intended to stop the Government directing Scottish Water to give it what is Scottish Water's cash.
They are likely to use the high street banks and their own local branches. We saw something similar happening about a year ago when Safeway was taken over by Morrisons and the in-store post office was closed.
Dr Ingrid Clayden is in charge of the rural development regulation and is well versed in European matters.I will try to bring committee members up to date. As members will know, we achieved political agreement in Luxembourg last Monday on the rural development regulation.