Explanatory Notes

Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

2010 asp 10

3 June 2010

The Act - Background

Schedule 3: Scottish Statutory Instruments: Procedures Prescribed in Pre-Commencement Enactments

118.This schedule modifies the existing procedures for scrutinising SSIs in pre-commencement enactments in order to bring them into line with the provisions in sections 28 to 32.

119.It provides that the negative procedure (defined by section 28) applies where the pre-commencement enactment provides that:

120.It provides that the affirmative procedure (defined by section 29) applies where the pre-commencement enactment provides that:

121.It provides that section 30, which requires the instrument simply to be laid before the Parliament, applies where the pre-commencement enactment provides that:

122.To the extent that pre-commencement enactments provide for any other parliamentary scrutiny procedures they will continue unaltered.