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The bill provides for eight different subordinate legislation powers, which implies that it contains a large number of provisions that may require to be changed over time.
I think that there is not unanimity on that point, but I may be wrong. It depends on whether the proposals on the timescale would help to resolve the problem of engaging with civic Scotland.
However, it allows bills to be tidied up sufficiently to be fit for introduction. In the inquiry, we may want to consider how that impacts on the rest of the process.
We have no reason to suppose that the measure would require to be used other than very rarely. However, there may be occasions on which it is required.
If we produce an amendment order, the situation may be different. We were not sure whether article 4(13) in the English order was omitted from the Scottish order because of a policy change.