 I welcome members to the 31st meeting in 2017 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. We've received apologies from Monica Lennon this morning. Agender item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed that the committee takes item 5 in private. That item is a draft report to the Finance and Constitution Committee on the legislative consent memorandum relating to the European Union withdrawal bill. Does the committee agree to take this item in private? The next item of business is consideration of instruments subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the draft public bodies, joint working, prescribe local authority functions etc. Scotland amendment number 2, regulations 2017. Is the committee content with this instrument? Agender item 3. This item is consideration of instruments subject to negative procedure. The first instrument is part of a package of instruments relating to tribunals. First tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber charity appeals procedure regulations 2017 SSI 2017 364. These regulations establish rules of procedure for the first tier tribunal general regulatory chamber when dealing with appeals against decisions of the office of the Scottish charity regulator. The rules set out in the schedule to the instruments are entitled. The first tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber charity appeals rules of procedure 2018. However, regulation 1 of the instrument provides an error that the rules may be cited as the first tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber rules of procedure 2018. Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament under the general reporting ground as it contains a drafting error? Does the committee wish to welcome that the Scottish Government has agreed to make an amending instrument correcting this error to come into force at the same time as the instrument? First tier tribunal for Scotland health and education chamber procedure regulations 2017 SSI 2017 366. These regulations establish rules of procedure for the first tier tribunal health and education chamber. Our legal advisers indicate that there are some drafting errors in this instrument. Firstly, rules 32, 2, 33, 4, 78, 2 and 79, 4 in the schedule make provision for citations to call witnesses and for the recovery of documents. The citations must explain that it is an offence under the Scottish tribunal's offences in relation to proceedings regulations 2016 to do certain things as specified in those rules and that a person guilty of such an offence may be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. There should be an additional reference in those rules to liability on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months. Secondly, the reference in rule 84, 7A, attendance at hearings to the quotes, person to whom the claim relates, where the person is the claimant, should be omitted as it appears to be superfluous. Thirdly, there is a paragraph error in rule 92, restricted reporting orders, the text of paragraphs 2 and 3 should all be in paragraph 2. As a result, paragraphs 2 to 5 should be renumbered 2 to 4. Does the committee agree to draw the regulations to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground as they contain those drafting errors? Does the committee also welcome that the Scottish Government has undertaken to make an amending instrument timersleep for those regulations coming into force on 12 January 2018? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on SSI 2017, 369, 370 and 381. Is the committee content with these instruments? Does the committee welcome that SSI 2017, 369 and 370 implement promptly the Scottish Government's undertaking to correct the errors that we pointed out in last week's meeting? They should be commended, I think, for acting so swiftly because there were, as we heard last week, a number of errors. Gender item 4, instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on SSI 2017, 354. Is the committee content with this instrument? I'll now move the meeting into private session.