Chamber and committees

Under agenda item 3, we are considering two instruments, on which no points have been raised.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Welcome to the 11th meeting of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee in 2023. We have received apologies from Oliver Mundell MSP. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch their mobile phones to silent.

The first item of business is to decide whether to take item 5 in private. Is the committee content to take that item in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 4, we are considering four instruments, on which no points have been raised.

Under agenda item 2, we are considering two instruments, on which no points have been raised.

With that, I wish everyone a happy Easter.

The result of the division is: For 3, Against 2, Abstentions 0.

Amendment 60 agreed to.

Section 4, as amended, agreed to.

Section 5—Assignation in part

Amendments 2 and 3 moved—[Tom Arthur]—and agreed to.

Section 5, as amended, agreed to.

Sections 6 and 7 agreed to.

Section 8—Intimation of the assignation of a claim

Amendment 61 not moved.

Section 8 agreed to.

Section 9 agreed to.

Section 10—Protection of debtor who performs in good faith

As no other memberbers wish to speak, I call Jeremy Balfour to wind up and to press or withdraw his amendments.

The next group is on a report on assignation. Amendment 52, in the name of Carol Mochan, is the only amendment in the group.