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Are there any other comments on the commissioner’s role?

In your view, would a non-binding model lease serve a useful legal or practical purpose? Can you foresee any potential legal issues? Who would like to go first?

I am trying to work it out myself.

Thanks, convener.

Does anyone else have comments on that exclusion?

Thank you.

However, as it stands, that will have to reduce to fund the new functions?

We heard earlier about the new land and communities commissioner. The financial memorandum for the bill says:

“The Commission will require ongoing resource funding to cover the costs for the new Commissioner and additional staffing costs.”

However, it is proposed that those costs will be met only partially through new funding and

“partially ... through existing funding to the Commission, by reducing their current activities, such as their policy work.”

In practice, Mr Trench, what will that mean for the commission and for all the other work that you do? Will it have an impact?

No, my questions come later, convener.

I will stick with the topic of the standard claims procedure. In your submission, you raised a number of issues about how a valuer is appointed. The process for appointing a valuer differs in different sections of the bill. How should a valuer be appointed? Would that differ depending on the type of valuation?