Chamber and committees

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.

The instrument implements road works reform in various policy areas. The committee identified an error in regulation 5. The reference to regulation 7 in the definition of “type of work” should be to regulation 6. The Scottish Government proposes to rectify the error by way of a correction slip.

The instrument amends regulation 3(2)(f) of the Road Works (Scottish Road Works Register, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 2008, which refers to the statutory code of practice issued in 2003, entitled “Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Roads”. The instrument also amends the Road Works (Reinstatement) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 to insert a definition of the current statutory code of practice, which was issued in 2019.

The Scottish Government has confirmed that the intention is that the 2008 regulations also refer to the current version of the code, which was issued in 2019, and not the code that was issued in 2003. Consequently, the 2008 regulations appear to refer to an obsolete code of practice.

Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the Parliament’s attention on the general reporting ground, for a cross-referencing error in regulation 5?

Members indicated agreement.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

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

Under the first item on the agenda, we are considering one instrument, on which no points have been raised.

Under agenda item 3, we are considering 10 instruments. Two issues have been raised on the following instrument.

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

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Welcome to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee’s sixth meeting in 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 items 4, 5 and 6 in private. Is the committee content to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 2, we are considering four instruments. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.