, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Written statements under Standing Order 30C
On we go to item No. 5, written statements under Standing Order 30C. The first of these is item 5.1, WS-30C(6)010, European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment and Revocation) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022. We have a written…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Well, thank you very much. Item 4.2, SL(6)228, the Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022, and we have in your papers a report and the Welsh Government response. As you know, we considered this at our meeting on 4 July, we laid the report…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
That takes us on, then, to item No. 4, our standing item on instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. The first of these is item 4.1, which is SL(6)218, the Provision…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much. Content, everybody? We are. Okay.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
No. Okay, that's great. Well, colleagues, as long as you're happy to agree those reporting points, we will send it back with some constructive and helpful pointers there. Kate, thank you very much for that. In which case we'll go on to item 3.8, moving away…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Well, thank you very much for that, and committee members breathed a sigh of relief when you said you weren't going to go through all 35 there. But we have the report to study and which no doubt Welsh Government will want to study as well there. It's…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you, Kate. And, committee colleagues, if I can just ask: are you happy on those three with the reporting points? We are. Good. We can agree those. There's a reason I paused at 3.7, which will become apparent in a moment. So, item 3.7, which is part of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's brilliant. Thank you for that. I'm going to go on to the third one of these and then I'll pause for a moment. Item 3.6, SL(6)227, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022, and we have a draft report and a written statement of 21…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thanks very much. I'll return to your consent on this in a moment, if I rattle through the four of them and then we'll come back to any points. Item 3.5 is SL(6)226, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022. We have a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much. Again, Members, are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. Thank you. That takes us on, now, to a suite of amendments coming up in front of us—items 3.4 to 3.7. They've been laid as part of a suite of regulations under the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much. Committee members, are we happy with that explanation and the reporting points? We are. Thank you very much. That takes us on to item 3.3 and affirmative resolution instruments now. It's SL(6)222, the Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Amendment)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much for that explanation there on the reporting points. Are we content with those reporting points? We are. Thank you. So, we'll move on to the next. We've got a few legal instruments to get through today, as we head up to the recess, so bear…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
For now, we'll go on to item No. 3. We have instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, and the first of these is a made negative resolution instrument under item 3.1, and it's SL(6)230, the National Health…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
As they leave our virtual room, we continue for the moment. Can I just check with colleagues that you're happy to continue now in public session? In which case—thank you—we'll go on to our other business. We'll return to looking at that session when we go…
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Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Goodbye.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
That's great. Thank you for that. Well, we are even more excited now than we were the start of this, after that first session. But, genuinely, thank you very much for engaging with us in the detail that you have today, and we'll keep that engagement going. We…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Counsel General. Before we close this evidence session with you on this consolidation Bill, can I just check with Members if they have any other questions? If not, then can I thank you and your colleagues, Counsel General? Just to flag with you…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Alun. Counsel General, remarkably, we've covered a heck of a lot of ground and we're slightly ahead of time, which, unfortunately for you, then allows me to come back to a couple of areas just very, very briefly. You mentioned in terms of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much, Rhys, indeed. We're going to go for our final set of questions to Alun, and I think that will probably take us up to time, but, Members, if we do find that we have a couple of minutes at the end and there are any other questions that you…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
And next, back to Rhys.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, James.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Counsel General. I'm going to hand over to James. It puts it in a whole new light when you, as a backbencher, think, 'Right, I'm going to have this landmark piece of new legislation under my own name, the Irranca-Davies piece of law on the historic…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
That's very helpful to understand how you see this fitting within that framework of codification, codes of law, as well. We really are pushing at the boundaries here, and it shows the added significance of getting this particular first consolidation Bill…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Historic Environment (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Diolch, Rhys; thank you very much indeed. If consolidation hasn't excited us enough, Counsel General, codification definitely does it for us. So, I wonder if you could give us some more details on your plans for a code of Welsh law on the historic…
