Committee
Communities Committee, 21 Mar 2007
21 Mar 2007 · S2 · Communities Committee
Item of business
Subordinate Legislation
Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/166)
I repeat my previous point. The original amendment regulations were laid only in November 2006, yet here we are in March 2007, because they contain a mistake. Our successor committee in the next session of Parliament may well want to urge the Executive—whomever it is—to deal with the confetti of regulations, as John Home Robertson described them.What is happening at present makes for confusion. People sometimes do not know which set of regulations they are operating under. I know that we do not often defend lawyers, but it is no wonder that they complain about some of the legislation that comes through the Parliament. It is untidy.
In the same item of business
The Convener:
Lab
The amendment regulations insert a new schedule 2 and insert text in schedule 5, both of which were erroneously omitted from the Building (Scotland) Amendmen...
Christine Grahame:
SNP
I repeat my previous point. The original amendment regulations were laid only in November 2006, yet here we are in March 2007, because they contain a mistake...
The Convener:
Lab
You make a valid point about SSIs, Christine; a point that the committee has raised on a number of occasions. Another valid point relates to defective drafti...
John Home Robertson:
Lab
I have another point about regulatory confetti. Four of the SSIs before us relate to building regulations, and it seems like an awful lot of paper. I hope th...