Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 29 Mar 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000

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Subordinate Legislation (Legal Aid)

I move,

That the Committee holds a single debate on motions S1M-668, S1M-667 and S1M-666 (motions to approve the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000; the Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 and the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000); and that the debate shall last no more than 90 minutes.

Although the standing orders indicate that we are required to allow 90 minutes' debating time for instruments, they are a little opaque about how committees should deal with several instruments that arrive all at once, like Glasgow buses, and that address essentially the same issue. If the motion is agreed, the three instruments will be debated together and there will be a 90-minute debate on all three, rather than three separate 90-minute debates. Is everybody happy with that?

Motion agreed to.