 Welcome to the 22nd meeting of session 6 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. We have no apologies for this morning's meeting. Our first agenda item is consideration of an affirmative instrument, the draft Scottish Tribunals Listed Tribunals Regulations 2022. I welcome to the meeting Ash Regan, Minister for Community Safety, who is accompanied by Scottish Government officials Lisa Davidson, civil justice senior policy officer and Martin Brown, solicitor and Scottish Government legal directorate. You are all very welcome. I refer members to paper 1 and invite the minister to speak to the draft Scottish Tribunal Regulations 2022. Thank you, convener, and good morning to the committee. As you said, those are the Scottish Tribunals Listed Tribunals Regulations of 2022. There are a relatively straightforward set of regulations that amend the Tribunals Scotland Act 2014 to insert the council tax reduction review panel to the list of tribunals that can be found in schedule 1. The 2014 act creates a new simplified statutory framework for tribunals in Scotland by establishing the Scottish tribunals, which brings together existing tribunal jurisdictions and provides a structure for any new jurisdictions. The valuation appeals committees, the council tax reduction review panel and certain functions of the land's tribunal for Scotland are to be transferred into Scottish tribunals on 1 January next year. Schedule 1 sets out the bodies that may transfer into the first-tier tribunal. Although the valuation appeals committee is listed in that section, the council tax reduction review panel is not, so the instrument rectifies that. I understand that the DPLRC considered the regulations on 7 June, and that it raised no points relating to it, but I would be happy to answer any questions that the committee may have. Thank you, convener. Are there any questions or comments at this stage? No, that being the case, we move straight on to item 2, which is the formal business in relation to the instrument, so our next agenda item is consideration of the motion for approval of the affirmative instrument, and I invite the cabinet secretary to move the motion. Do any members have any final comments? No, that being the case, are we all agreed? Yeah, okay, that is great, that is all agreed, so again I invite the committee to agree to delegate to me the publication of a short factual report on our deliberations on the affirmative SSI that we have considered today. Is that also agreed? That is great, thank you very much. That completes consideration of the affirmative instrument. I thank the minister and her officials for attending. We will move straight on then to the next item on our agenda, which is consideration of 2 negative instruments and refer members to paper 2. Do any members have any comments on the Gender Recognition, Marriage and Civil Partnership Registration Scotland Amendment Regulations 2022 or the Gender Recognition, Marriage and Civil Partnership Registration Modification Scotland Amendment Order 2022? Rachel? It was just, I wanted to ask why there needed to be this amendment. I wasn't quite clear in the detail of the papers as to why we are amending this. Is there anybody that can answer that in the committee? So it's obviously a negative instrument, so there's the documents that have accompanied it. The purpose notes are there. In the paper that you have, there are the procedures around the notes and then there's also the policy note and policy objectives, which were in the papers that were circulated last Thursday. I guess the procedure is that if anyone questions a negative instrument, then it would be for that member or any member in the Parliament to lodge a motion to annul. Maggie? I can see the policy note here. It's just it just wasn't clear to me why we're doing this, but anyway. Maggie? Just by way, hopefully, of helpful explanation. At the moment, only one of a couple can get a GRC. That enables both to get GRCs. Yeah, thanks Maggie. That's kind of confirmed what I was reading within the policy note, but just needed to get some reassurance about that. My interpretation of that was correct. I guess for future, if we're particularly wanting to folk have questions, then if we get them to the clerks earlier, the clerks can lay us to government to get an answer back for if there's any clarification points. Spice can help us with that as well, obviously. The kind of further motion in terms of clarity, you obviously could contact Government yourself to get that information now, but I think from us it's just a note that these are going through and it would be obviously to then go to the chamber. Okay, so that being the case, and just to confirm that members are content to formally not to make any comments to the Parliament on the instruments, that therefore concludes consideration of the SSIs and will now move into private for our final items on our agenda.