Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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Subordinate Legislation

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Town and Country Planning (Emergency Period and Extended Period) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/254)

I refer members to paper 3. Item 4 is consideration of an instrument has been laid under the negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul it. No motion to annul has been lodged. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument on 1?September 2020 and determined that it did not need to draw the Parliament’s attention to the instrument on any grounds within its remit—[Interruption.]

I suspend the meeting.

12:22 Meeting suspended.  

12:23 On resuming—  

I will start again.

I refer members to paper 3. The instrument has been laid under the negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul it. No motion to annul has been lodged. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument on 1?September 2020 and determined that it did not need to draw the Parliament’s attention to the instrument on any grounds within its remit.

Do members have any comments on the instrument?

The regulations are an important piece of legislation to enable people who have planning consents to restart development as things move on with the pandemic, so I will certainly not be opposing the instrument today.

Thank you. Do other members have any further comments?

As there are no further comments, I ask the committee to agree that it does not wish to make any further recommendations in relation to the instrument. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes the public part of the meeting.

12:25 Meeting continued in private until 12:42.