Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Official Report 440KB pdf
Contents
- Attendance
- Interests
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
Under agenda item 4, we are considering two instruments, on which no points have been raised.
Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No 13 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/79 (C 7))
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 (Commencement and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/82 (C 8))
I believe that Oliver Mundell would like to make a contribution.
Thank you, convener. I want to place on the record that I remain strongly opposed to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021. I think that the legislation undermines free speech and I believe that it should not be subject to commencement when serious concerns remain about how it will be policed in practice.
You have put your comments on the record.
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
With that, I move the committee into private.
10:04 Meeting continued in private until 10:51.