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Committee reports
Date published:
17 September 2019
An end to preferential access for EU vets
Under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 both UK and Scottish Government Ministers have special powers to make regulations to correct deficiencies in converted EU law to ensure the statute book is ready for Brexit. This involves the laying of Statutory Instruments (SIs), also sometimes known as secondary legi...
Policy Memorandum (SP Bill 30-PM, Session 5 (2018)), paragraph 34
The Bill provides—
"(1) The Scottish Ministers must in each relevant year, lay before the Scottish Parliament a report on each substantive chapter of the most recent climate change plan laid under section 35
It is understood that amendments have been made to the Bill in the course of its passage through the UK Parliament to clause 2 which have:
upgraded the scrutiny procedure for regulations made by Scottish Ministers from the negative procedure to the affirmative; and
that further information will be provided to the UK Parliament in advance of laying SIs under...
Part 2 - National Islands Plan
Part 2 of the Bill places a duty of the Scottish Ministers to prepare, lay before the Scottish Parliament and publish a 'National Islands Plan'.