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The provision is important. There are many hands-off organisations now. Those organisations must operate by predetermined codes of practice, regulations or rules.
I hope that we roll through the business in a way that does not cause too many complaints.The background to the regulations is the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.
The national park board will be responsible for many matters. When I submitted the petition, I attached Scottish Natural Heritage's advice to the Scottish Executive.
If members agree, the clerks and I will consider the programme further, but members should feel free to feed in as many suggestions as possible. For example, the Inverness suggestion was good.
I also wrote to some Scottish MEPs to flag up the important matter of peripherality—from which many island communities in Europe suffer—and to ask them to argue for a special case to be made.
The simplest way of dealing with this amendment would be to restate why the Executive thinks that section 26 should be retained as it stands. Our view is that there will be many grey areas in which it will not be clear whether authorisation is required.
Holyrood starts delivering and stops wasting money on frivolous ideas". That comment echoes the views of many people in Scotland about the failings of the Executive.