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Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee 04 March 2015

04 Mar 2015 · S4 · Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee

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Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

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The third item on our agenda today is to begin our consideration of amendments to part 4 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill at stage 2. I welcome the officials joining the Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform—and I welcome the minister again. The officials are: Dave Thomson of the Scottish Government’s land reform and tenancy unit; Elizabeth Connell, a Scottish Government lawyer; and David McLeish, who is parliamentary counsel. Everyone should have with them a copy of the bill as introduced, the marshalled list of amendments, which was published on Monday, and the groupings, which sets out the amendments in the order in which they will be debated. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. I will call the member who lodged the first amendment in the group to speak to and move that amendment, and to speak to all the other amendments in the group. Members who have not lodged amendments in the group but who wish to speak should indicate that by catching my eye. If the minister has not already spoken on the group, I will invite her to contribute to the debate just before moving to the winding-up speech. The debate on each group will be concluded by me inviting the member who moved the first amendment in the group to wind up. Following the debate on the group, I will check whether the member who moved the first amendment in the group wishes to press it to a vote or to withdraw it. If the member wishes to press ahead, I will put the question on the amendment. If a member wishes to withdraw their amendment after it has been moved, I will check whether any other member objects. If any committee member does object, the amendment is not withdrawn and the committee must immediately move to vote on it. If any member does not wish to move their amendment when it is called, they should say “Not moved.” Any other MSP present may move such an amendment. If no one moves the amendment, however, I will immediately call the next amendment on the marshalled list. Only committee members are allowed to vote. Voting on any division is by show of hands. It is important that members keep their hands clearly raised until the clerk has recorded the vote. The committee is required to indicate formally that it has considered and agreed each section of the bill, so I will put a question on each section at the appropriate point. We have agreed to consider sections 27 to 47 and any amendments inserting new sections after section 47 today. If we do not get that far, we will stop at an appropriate point and pick up where we left off next week. Section 27—Nature of land in which community interest may be registered

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