 Cymru. I welcome members to the 13th meeting in 2016 of the Delegative Powers and Law Reform Committee. As always, I ask members to switch off mobile phones please. Agenda item one is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed the committee to take item five in private. This will enable the committee to consider a draft legacy paper. Does the committee agree to take item five in private please? Thank you. Agenda item number two is the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm Scotland bill, The item is for the committee to consider the delegated browse provisions in the bill, following stage 2. Members will have before them a briefing on delegated powers in the bill as revised at stage 2, and a letter from the Cabinet Secretary of Justice concerning relevant to stage 3 amendments. At stage 2, new delegated power was added to section 19-8. section 19 provides the court which is hearing the matter, with powers to vary o'r ddysgwm, oedd y ddodol yn eich clywed ar gyfer unigodol fel cyfodol, a'r cymdeithasol yn hyn o'r ddodol yn bryddiol. Y parol o'r Cymru, i wneud o'r rheswm o'r cwrt, gyda'r cyfrifio o'r gwaith o'r cyflog o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio, o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio, a'u ei wneud i'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio o'r cyfrifio. any resulting rules of court would be laid before the Parliament but not subject to further procedure. Section 197 and 198 are currently drafted and contain an error. The power has been drafted to relate to the time period for giving notice to a sheriff of a wish for hearing to be held before the sheriff determines the application. The first line of section 197 also refers to a sheriff. However, in accordance with section 191 and 3, the court, which hears an application for variation, renewal or discharge of a sexual harm prevention order, may be the appropriate court being either the High Court of Justice or a sheriff, depending on the proceedings. The committee may wish to note that the Scottish Government has lodged amendments at stage 3 so that sections 197 and 198 would refer to an application made to and noticed to the appropriate court instead of to a sheriff court only. Does the committee agree that the power in section 1988 is acceptable in principle and wish to be content that the rules of court would be laid but not subject to any further procedure? Does the committee agree to note the error in section 197 and 198? Does the committee agree to report that it is content with the remaining new or substantially revised delegated powers after stage 2 of the Bill? Brings us to agenda item 3, which is the burial and cremation Scotland Bill. This item is for the committee to consider further the delegated powers provisions in the Bill following stage 2. I wrote to the Scottish Government after our last meeting setting out the committee's concerns on section 66, which contains a revised power allowing Scottish ministers to make regulations for or in connection with the licensing scheme for funeral directors businesses. Given the potential impact that the scheme could have on individuals, the committee considered the matters relating to the licensing of funeral directors businesses should be set out more fully on the face of the bill. Recognising that that might not be possible due to time constraints, the committee asked the Scottish Government to consider attaching an enhanced affirmative procedure to the power. The Scottish Government has yesterday lodged an amendment saying that an enhanced affirmative procedure will apply to that power. Do members agree to note and welcome the response from the Scottish Government? I think that that is an excellent result and indicates that the Government has listened to the concerns of the committee. Throughout the passage of the bill, we have seen the committee make a very positive contribution to this particular bill. I am glad that the Government has listened, and I am glad that we have had the first-class advice from our clerks and advisers that has enabled us to achieve this result. I agree with everything that Stuart Stevenson has said and welcome this final amendment that is proposed by the Government, which I think leaves us as a committee much more content with the bill at this stage than we were when we were first introduced to it. Thank you very much. I then come on to agenda item 4, which is our annual report. This is consideration of a draft annual report for the parliamentary year from 11 May 2015 to 23 March 2016. Under rule 12.9 of standing orders, the committee is obliged to report to the Parliament at the end of each parliamentary year on its activities during that year. We have before us a draft annual report for the parliamentary year 2015-16. Do members have any comments on that report, please? Just a very minor comment that I think the last sentence of paragraph 3 should read that the bill will be debated at stage 3 rather than the current words I did. That is the standard form of words, and I am sure that we will adopt that. Do members have any other comments on that item? Or for that matter, given that I think that this is the last item of the open session of what is likely to be our last meeting in this session, we may have one next Tuesday if required, but that seems unlikely. Do members have any comments? John? It comes as quite a surprise to me and notwithstanding the fact that we have been busy to discover that we have actually considered 323 statutory instruments that I have read correctly in the year, as well as everything else that we have done. I would put it on record as thanking our clerks and legal advisers for all the help that we have had in our consideration of those matters. I want to say a thank you to all the committee staff and especially for helping me to get up to speed very quickly. I really appreciate all the effort that has been put into all the reports, and it has been very helpful and for the additional support. I would like to take the opportunity, convener, of contributing to this, to ensure that we have unanimity in our praise for our clerks and advisers. It is hard-earned and well-deserved. Indeed, if I might take the opportunity as the convener, I would like to echo that. If I could possibly embarrass our clerks and legal advisers, I will willingly do so. I do not know whether they are embarrassable. Maybe when you have been in Parliament advising MSPs for a while, you seem to be embarrassable. I do not know, but I think that they are absolutely fab. They have done an extraordinarily good job, not just for this committee, but also for the Government in picking up all sorts of stuff that normal people do not pick up. Their patience is obvious. Their skills are, frankly, proverbial, and, as I say, if that embarrasses them, it will so be it. I would also like, and again, that this is the last opportunity, to thank those around us, the Official Report, those who are in broadcasting, those who attend to all the technicalities that seem to work, and we are very grateful to our security officers, one here at the moment who represents all the others. Thank you very much for giving us an environment in which we can do this. I would also like to thank, actually, a Geoffrey Spatric and his predecessors of Minister for Parliament, because, actually, what has happened here has been a dialogue with the Government. I am sure that Ewan Clark would also recognise that his counterparts in the Government actually listened to what he says. We have a dialogue that enables an awful lot of these changes to be achieved. I am hoping that I have not left anybody out, other than to thank fellow members for their diligence over the last session, mostly. We have been incredibly busy. A small crew has actually made it work very, very well, but only because you have engaged enormously well with it. Thank you very much. I would also like to thank you, convener, for your sympathetic and intelligent chairing of this committee over the past five years. You have done a very good job, and it knows a small—it is down to you, in large measure, the fact that this committee has worked so well together, by and large, and spoken with one voice. In fact, almost without exception, spoken with one voice, and I think that is down to your thoughtful and sympathetic chairing of this group as well. I thank you for your convenership of this committee over the last five years. I thank you for those kind words. I think that brings us to the end of agenda item 4, somewhat extended, and at that point I move the meeting into private.