 I welcome members to the seventh meeting of the Delegated Powers and the Law Reform Committee. We have apologies this morning from David Torrance, who is unable to attend the meeting, and he has submitted his apologies. We are very pleased to welcome George Adam, who is attending as a substitute member. It is proposed that the committee holds item 5 in private. There will be an opportunity for the committee to consider its approach to considering SSIs arising from the Bankruptcy Scotland Act 2016. Is the committee content to consider item 5 in private? Content. Thank you. I will now move to agenda item 2, which is consideration of instruments subject to the affirmative procedure. The first instrument is the draft courts reform Scotland Act 2014, relevant officer and consequential provisions order 2016. Article 4.1 of this order appears to be defectively drafted. That article makes transitional provision that the several modifications of primary and secondary legislation, which are set out in schedule 1, other than paragraph 7, do not apply to small claims in the sheriff court. The reference to paragraph 7 is an error. The Scottish Government intends that the modifications contained in paragraph 8 of the schedule should apply to small claims. Those in paragraph 7 should not so apply. This was drawn to the attention of the Scottish Government and the Government proposes to correct the error in the minister's signing copy should the Parliament affirm the draft order. However, our legal briefing suggests that the error in the transitional provision is neither highly self-evident nor insignificant. The draft order has also been published on www.legislation.gov.uk. The committee could report that the draft order should be withdrawn and relayed in the correct terms for approval by the Parliament. If relaying the order raises a difficulty, the Scottish Government could alternatively consider laying an amending instrument to correct the error for this instrument coming into force on 28 November. Do members have any comment on there being none? Does the committee wish to draw the order to the attention of the Parliament on the reporting ground I, as article 4.1 appears to be defectively drafted? Does the committee wish to accept the recommendation in our legal briefing that the Scottish Government could be called on to withdraw and relay the draft order in the correct terms for approval by the Parliament? We now move to the remaining instrument subject to the affirmative procedure and no points have been raised by our legal advisers on the draft budget Scotland Act 2016. Amendment regulations 2016 is the committee content with this instrument. Thank you. We now move to agenda item 3, which is consideration of instruments subject to negative procedure. The first instrument is civil legal aid Scotland fees amendment regulations 2016 SSI 2016-290. Regulation 2 to C of the instrument contains a drafting error. Regulation 5 to B A in the civil legal aid Scotland fees regulations 1989, the 1989 regulations, as inserted by regulation 2 to C of the instrument, defines a simple procedure case with reference to section 72-3 of the Courts Reform Scotland Act 2014. Section 72-3 does not contain a definition of a simple procedure case, rather it lists types of proceedings that may only be brought subject to simple procedure. The definition of a simple procedure case is found instead in section 72-9 of the 2014 act. The committee notes that the Scottish Government intends to amend the definition of a simple procedure case in the 1989 regulations, sometime in advance of the date on which the remaining provisions of the 2014 act relating to simple procedure come into force. That date is expected to be no earlier than September 2017. Additionally, there is a drafting error in paragraph 2 of the table of civil legal aid fees in new schedule 2A to the 1989 regulations, as inserted by regulation 5-3 and the schedule to this instrument. The entry in paragraph 2 sets a fee for times spent by a solicitor or solicitor's clerk in carrying out work other than that prescribed in paragraphs 3 to 6 of the table. The reference should be to work other than that prescribed in paragraphs 3 to 7. However, as the error does not appear to be self-evident in nature, the committee could call on the Scottish Government to correct this error by amending the instrument. Do members have any comment on that? Does the committee wish to draw the Parliament's attention to the instrument under the general reporting ground? Does the committee wish to note that the first of the errors in the instrument is to be corrected by the laying of an amending instrument? Does the committee also wish to call on the Scottish Government to correct the second error by laying an amending instrument and not by way of a correction slip? We now move to the remaining instrument subject to the negative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the representation of the people. Absent voting at local government election Scotland, amendment 2, regulations 2016, SSI 2016-264. Is the committee content with this instrument? Moving now to agenda item 4, which is the consideration of an instrument that is not subject to any parliamentary procedure. The private housing tenancy Scotland Act 2016 commencement number 1, regulations 2016, SSI 2016-298, C28. Is the committee content with this instrument? Excellent. Thank you very much. That concludes the committee's public business for today. We now move into private session.