 Welcome everyone to the eighth meeting in 2019 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. The first item of business is consideration of SSIs laid under the European Union with DrawLact 2018. We are looking at those in terms of the SSI protocol and we are considering the scrutiny procedure under which they have been laid and the categorisation applied by the Scottish Government. The following instruments have all been laid under the yw'r deladau o hyd yn pantsawd yn Comet Cynrifiohol, oedd yn ddigweld fan y cyfrifiwr Cynrifiw odds 2019, 59, 60, 69, 71 and 73. In each case, our advisers indicate that the scrutiny procedure and the categorisation could be appropriate. Is the committee content with the scrutiny procedure and the categorisation? The next item is consideration of an instrument subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our advisers on the draft services of lawyers and lawyers practice EU exit Scotland amendment etc regulations 2019. Is the committee content with this instrument? Gender item 3 is instrument subject to negative procedure. The first one is the non-domestic rating valuation of utility Scotland amendment order SSI 2019-45. The instrument contains a drafting error in article 6 relating to a company name. The Scottish Government accepts that names must be consistent with their entries in companies house. Full details can be found in our correspondence with the government, which is included in our published papers. The government has now laid an amending instrument to correct that error. Does the committee wish to draw the order to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground as it contains a drafting error in article 6? Does the committee wish to welcome the Government's prompt response to rectifying this drafting error? The next instrument is the Felling Scotland Regulations SSI 2019-49. This is the first of three instruments being considered today in relation to the Forestry and Land Management Act, which was passed last year by the Parliament. The instrument contains drafting errors relating to the way certain paragraphs have been presented. Members will have seen from the Scottish Government's correspondence in the published papers that it has thanked the committee for drawing this to its attention and will correct this at the earliest opportunity. Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground due to drafting errors in paragraphs 1 and 2 of regulation 4? Does the committee wish to welcome the Scottish Government's proposal to correct the errors by amending instrument at the earliest opportunity? The next instrument to consider is the Scotland Act 1998, Specification of Functions and Transfer of Property, et cetera, order SI 2019-183. The order also relates to forestry regulation under the recently passed act. It contains an error relating to defective drafting. There is an erroneous reference in article 3 of the order to a section in the 2019 Climate Change Act concerning duties of public bodies. Again, the detail can be found in our published papers. Does the committee wish to draw the order to the attention of Parliament on reporting ground I as there appears to be defective drafting in paragraph 2C of article 3? Thank you. Does the committee wish to accept the Scottish Government's assurance that there is no intention for this provision to be acted upon and to accept the Government's proposal to correct the error at the earliest opportunity? The next instrument to consider is the National Health Service, Superannuation and Pension Schemes Scotland, Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations, SSI 2019-46. Our legal advisers have not identified any errors in this instrument. However, the remains an outstanding commitment by the Government to rectify an error in SSI 2017-27, which amends one of the same instruments as this instrument when it was considered by the committee in 2017. The Scottish Government has highlighted in correspondence, which can be read in paper 3, that planned instrument to correct this error has been paused following a recent decision in the English courts. However, given that the error was identified by the committee as defective drafting, which related to provisions that should have been made retrospective, the committee may wish to encourage the Scottish Government to rectify the error as soon as possible. Does the committee agree to encourage the Scottish Government to rectify the error in SSI 2017-27 as soon as possible? There are further seven instruments on our agenda laid under the negative procedure, and our legal advisers have not raised any points on any of them. The instruments are SSIs 2019-52, 54, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 69. Is the committee content with these instruments? The final item of business is consideration of an instrument not subject to any parliamentary procedure. SSI 2019-47 is the third instrument on our agenda today relating to forestry regulation under the 2018 act. There is a drafting error in this instrument relating to references that should have been footnotes. Members will have seen from the Scottish Government's correspondence in the published papers that it is thanked the committee for drawing this to its attention and will correct it at the earliest opportunity. Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground for drafting errors in paragraphs 2A and 2B of regulation 19 and paragraphs 2A and 3 of regulation 20? Does the committee wish to welcome the Scottish Government's undertaking to correct the errors by amending regulations at the earliest possible opportunity? Thank you and I will close the meeting.