 I welcome members to the 35th meeting in 2017 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. Apologies have been received from Monica Lennon. Agender item 1 is the consideration of instruments subject to negative procedure. No points have been raised by illegal advisers on SSI 2017, 419, 421 and 422. Is the committee content with these instruments? Agender item 2, consideration of instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure and no points have been raised by our advisers on SSI 2017, 420, 424, 426 and 427. Is the committee content with these instruments? Agender item 3 is consideration of the Scottish Government's response to the committee's stage 1 report on the gender representation on public boards Scotland bill, and the committee recommended that the power to modify schedule 1 of the bill, which allows the Government to modify the list of bodies subject to the bill, should have a greater level of scrutiny attached to it than is currently allowed for in the bill. The Government has accepted the committee's recommendation and will lodge an amendment at stage 2 to alter the scrutiny provision attached to the power in section 8 to the affirmative procedure. This will increase the level of parliamentary scrutiny afforded to the exercise of this power. Is the committee content with the Government's response to the committee's stage 1 report? Agender item 4 is consideration of the wild animals in travelling circuses Scotland bill as amended at stage 2. New section 3A confers a power on Scottish ministers to specify under subsection 1A a kind of animal that is to be regarded as wild and under subsection 1B a kind of animal that is not to be regarded as wild for the purposes of the bill. Any regulations under subsection 1A specifying a kind of animal as wild are without prejudice to the meaning of wild animal in section 2 of the bill. Section 2 provides a general definition of the expression wild animal. In turn, the meaning of wild animal in section 2 is subject to whatever is done by regulations under subsection 1B, the power to specify by regulations that a kind of animal is not to be regarded as wild for the purposes of the bill. The effect of the power in section 3A, 1A and 2A is unusual in principle. If a kind of animal was to be specified in the regulations to be regarded as wild, this would not affect whether the kind of animal in fact comes within the generality of the meaning of wild animal in section 2. The regulations made under section 3A, 1A would therefore only indicate the Scottish Government's interpretation of kinds of animals that it considers come within the meaning of wild animal as specified in section 2. The committee could consider that regulations are not the appropriate form of instrument to provide such an interpretation and the same issue arises with new section 3B. It confers on the Scottish ministers a power to make regulations to describe a particular type of undertaking, act, entertainment or similar thing that is or is not to be regarded as a travelling circus within the meaning of the bill. Provision in any regulations under subsection 1A describing something as a travelling circus is without prejudice to the meaning stated in section 3. Does the committee therefore agree to recommend that the Scottish Government consider in advance of stage 3 whether guidance or a Government note would be more appropriate than regulations for the power in section 3A to specify what is wild animal and the power in section 3B to describe an undertaking, act, entertainment or similar thing that is a travelling circus? Another question. Given that stage 3 has been included in the business programme for Wednesday 20 December, does the committee wish to write to the Scottish Government and ask it to clarify the use of the regulation making powers in section 3A and 3B during the stage 3 debate? Okay, and I'll close the meeting.