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I will park that question, because I know that another committee member wants to ask about the new appointment.

Are you comfortable that prior notification and the lotting that leads to it are easy to do? When I was lotting estates as a land agent, I found it to be the most difficult thing that I had done in my life. In the bill, it appears to be quite easy.

If lotting was carried out to allow a community purchase, which I think is within the scope of the bill, it could devalue the rest of the holding. There is provision in the bill for compensation, with the Government buying the whole thing, but that would surely be on the basis of an open market value without the lotting.

And is it?

Before we leave the appointment of that new commissioner, I want to ask whether you were all in total favour of having a separate person to do that. Mike, were you in favour?

I am not quite clear. Does that mean scrapping one of the land commissioners and bringing in the new person?

Fewer than 10?

Without repeating that, Mike Russell, is there anything in the bill that you think that we should have addressed this morning?

I have some questions. There are a lot of things in part 2 that I understand, but I want to understand resumption and the different ways of dealing with it, which is causing me a bit of concern. If you have a 1991 act tenancy, resumption is valid only if that is in the lease and there is a way of valuing that resumption. If you are in a subsequent lease, there is a different way of doing it and it is valued in a different way. Will you explain how the bill helps with regard to that? It has certainly confused me.

The deputy convener has questions on that topic, as do I.