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)
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 drafting. We could perhaps write a general letter to Margaret Curran, the Minister for Parliamentary Business, to ask her to reflect on our comments on SSIs and defective drafting. The issues have come up often and we have written about them before.
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...