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Secondly, does the committee welcome that regulation 22 of SSI 2023/59 corrects an error that the committee identified in SSI 2022/137, the Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2022?

Members indicated agreement.

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

In relation to Scottish statutory instrument 2023/40, which is the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Local Taxation Chamber and Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Rules of Procedure) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2023, the committee welcomes that the instrument fulfils a commitment that the Scottish Government made to bring forward an amending instrument before the principal instruments come into force to address issues that were raised by the committee on SSI 2022/364 and SSI 2022/365. The committee notes that the Scottish Government intends that a cross-referencing error in rule 20(4) of SSI 2022/364 will be corrected by correction slip.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 2, we are considering two instruments.

Welcome to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee’s eighth meeting of 2023. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch mobile phones to silent.

The first item of business is a decision on whether to take item 5 in private. Is the committee content to take item 5 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

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

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

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

Thank you.

No points have been raised on the following draft instruments.