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Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

The purpose of the instrument is to list offences in relation to which compliance notices may be used as an alternative to criminal proceedings, as set out in the Food (Scotland) Act 2015. The committee identified a cross-referencing error in paragraph 33 of the schedule to the instrument. The Scottish Government has accepted that there is a cross-referencing error and has undertaken to rectify it at the earliest available opportunity.

Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground, for a cross-referencing error, in that paragraph 33 of the schedule should refer to regulation 4 of the Novel Foods (Scotland) Regulations 2017 instead of regulation 6(2)?

Members indicated agreement.

Does the committee wish to note that the Scottish Government intends to correct the error by amendment at the earliest available opportunity?

Members indicated agreement.

Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.

Under agenda item 4, we are considering three instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure, on which no points have been raised.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 3, we are considering three instruments subject to the negative procedure. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes the public part of the meeting.

Welcome to the 20th meeting in 2023 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. I remind everyone present to switch mobile phones to silent.

The first item of business is to decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. Is the committee content to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.