Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5, 6, 7 and 8 in private. 2. Prescription (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from— Dr Andrew Simpson, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen; Dr Eleanor Russell, Senior Lecturer in Law, Glasgow Caledonian University; David Wedderburn OBE, Forensic Architect, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). 3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Loch Carron Urgent Marine Conservation (No. 2) Order 2017 (Urgent Continuation) Order 2018 (SSI 2018/100); Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/110); Letting Agents (Notice Requiring Information) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/115). 4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No.7) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/99 (C.9)); Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (Commencement No. 15 and Saving Provision) and the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2018 (SSI 2018/102 (C.10)). 5. Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the delegated powers provisions in this Bill after Stage 2. 6. Social Security (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider further the delegated powers provisions in this Bill after Stage 2. 7. European Union (Withdrawal) Bill: The Committee will consider recent developments of relevance to its ongoing consideration of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. 8. Report on instruments considered during the third quarter of the parliamentary year 2017-18: The Committee will consider a draft of its third quarterly report for the parliamentary year 2017-18. 9. Prescription (Scotland) Bill (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier in the meeting along with the written evidence it has received on the Bill to date.