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Bureau Motion · S4M-12334 · Session 4

Business Motion

Lodged by Joe FitzPatrick SNP Lodged 17 Feb 2015 Debate 18 Feb 2015

The motion

That the Parliament agrees under Rule 9.7.1(b) that stage 2 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill be taken as follows:
(a) the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee to consider (in the order set out by, or by virtue of, Rules 9.7.4 and 9.10.8):
(i) amendments to, and sections within, Part 4 (including any amendments inserting a new schedule to be introduced by Part 4), and
(ii) any amendments not falling within Part 4 (including amendments to Part 9, schedules 4 and 5 and the long title) that relate primarily to provisions within or introduced by Part 4 or that otherwise relate primarily to land reform,
(b) the Local Government and Regeneration Committee to consider (in the order set out by, or by virtue of, Rules 9.7.4 and 9.10.8):
(i) amendments to Parts 1 to 3, Parts 5 to 8 and schedules 1 to 3; sections within those Parts, and schedules 1 to 3,
(ii) any amendments not falling within those Parts and schedules (including amendments to Part 9, schedules 4 and 5 and the long title), other than those to be considered by the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee, and
(iii) sections within Part 9; schedules 4 and 5, and the long title (consideration of any provision mentioned in this sub-paragraph to be completed only after the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee has completed consideration of any amendments to that provision that fall to be considered by it);
with amendments to be considered by the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee being numbered in a sequence starting with 1 and amendments to be considered by the Local Government and Regeneration Committee to be numbered in a sequence starting with 1001, each sequence being published separately.

Vote

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Supporters

No MSP has added their name to this motion.

In the Official Report

2 contributions mention S4M-12334
  1. 18 Feb 2015
    Parliamentary Bureau Motions
    Tricia Marwick Meeting of the Parliament

    The next item of business is consideration of four Parliamentary Bureau motions. I ask Joe FitzPatrick to move motion S4M-12334, on referral of a bill, and motions S4M-12335 and S4M-12336, on approval of Scottish statutory instruments. Mot…

  2. 18 Feb 2015
    Decision Time
    Tricia Marwick Meeting of the Parliament

    The next question is, that motion S4M-12334, in the name of Joe FitzPatrick, on referral of a bill, be agreed to. Motion agreed to, That the Parliament agrees under Rule 9.7.1(b) that stage 2 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill be…