 I welcome members to the 29th meeting in 2014 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. As always, I ask members to turn off their mobile phones please. Agender item one is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed that we take item eight in private. This is consideration of a paper by the clerk and correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice in connection with instruments relating to the EU opt-out. Does the committee agree to take item eight in private please? Thank you. We should also note in line with previous decisions that item six and seven will also be in private. Agender item two is instrument subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the mutual recognition of criminal financial penalties in the European Union's Scotland number one order 2014 draft, nor on the public body's joint working integration scheme Scotland Regulations 2014 draft, nor on the public body's joint working national health and wellbeing outcomes Scotland Regulations 2014 draft, nor on the public body's joint working prescribed health board functions Scotland Regulations 2014 draft, nor on the public body's joint working prescribed local authority functions etc. Scotland Regulations 2014 draft, nor on the Scotland Act 1998 functions exerciseable in or as regards Scotland order 2015 draft, nor on the Scotland Act 1998, sorry, River Tweed amendment order 2015 draft. Do you members have any comments please? None now. The committee may wish to note that the versions of the public body's joint working prescribed health board functions Scotland Regulations 2014 draft and the public body's joint working prescribed local authority functions at Scotland Regulations 2014 draft replace earlier versions which will be drawn by the Scottish Government as they contained errors. One of the instruments contained an error which the committee's legal advice has considered amounted to defective drafting. Both instruments also contained large numbers of minor errors, most of which have been corrected. Is the committee otherwise content with these instruments please? Thank you. Agender item three is instrument subject to negative procedure. The sulphur content of liquid fuels Scotland Regulations 2014 SSI 2014 258. The regulations contain a couple of minor drafting errors. Regulation 4.1, which prohibits the use of certain heavy fuel oils, states that it is subject to regulation 4.2, limiting the application of regulation 4.1 until 1 January 2016 for certain uses. Regulation 4.1 should also be specified as subject to regulation 4.3, pardon me, which limits the application of regulation 4.1 as from 1 January 2016 for certain uses. Paragraph 6 of the schedule requires a person to whom a sulphur content of liquid fuels permit is intended to be transferred to notify CEPA of the intended transfer within 21 days of the intended day to transfer. The reference is to intended in paragraph 6, the made in error. The Scottish Government intends that the modification should be given by the person to whom a permit has been transferred within 21 days after the day to transfer. Does the committee agree to draw the regulations to the Parliament's attention on the general reporting ground? Does the committee also note, however, that the Scottish Government will correct these errors by amendment in due course? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the convener of the school closure review panel Scotland Regulations 2014 SSI 2014 262, nor on the members of a school closure review panel Scotland Regulations SSI 2014 at 263, nor on the Royal Conservatory of Scotland Order of Council 2014 SSI 2014 268. Is the committee content with these instruments, please? Cym. Dender item 5 is instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure. The Bankruptcy and Data Advice Scotland Act 2014 commencement number 2, Savings and Transitionals Order 2014 SSI 2014 261. The meaning of the saving provision in article 4.1 could be clearer in the following respect. There could be a consistent use of tense in paragraphs A and B. Paragraph 1 could, accordingly, have made clearer that it applies to either on a petition for secretion presented or on a data application made before the first of April 2015, regardless of whether the date of the presentation, the position or the date of making the data application was before, on or after the date of making this order. Does the committee agree to draw the regulations to the attention of the Parliament on the reporting ground H, as the meaning of the saving provision in article 4.1 could be clearer? Does the committee agree to note that the Scottish Government has undertaken to amend article 4.1 and the similar provisions in SSI 2014 225 and SSI 2014 227, which have already been reported committee, and before the instruments come into force? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the Housing Scotland Act 2014 commencement number 1, transitional and saving provisions order 2014 SSI 2014 264. Is the committee content with that instrument, please? Before moving on from consideration of instruments, the committee may wish to note that again this week there have been a significant number of minor points, and there would have been significantly more. Had the legal advisers not drawn the Government's attention to the minor points within the public bodies instruments, which were subsequently relayed. Gender item 5 is Historic Environment and Scotland Bill. This item of business is consideration of the delegated powers provisions in the bill after stage 2. Members will have noted that the Scottish Government has provided a supplementary delegated powers memorandum and will have seen the briefing paper. Stage 3 consideration of the bill is due to take place next Tuesday on 4 November. Does the committee agree to report that it is content with the provisions in the bill, which have amended at stage 2, to insert or substantially alter provisions in the bill? If members have no other comments, then that ends item 5, and I move the meeting into private. Thank you very much.