Wednesday, 6 March 2002
[THE PRESIDING OFFICER opened the meeting at 14:30]
To lead our time for reflection, we welcome the Reverend Jack Holt, who is the minister of Birse and Feughside parish church and moderator of the presbytery of Kincardine and Deeside.
Our next item of business is consideration of a Parliamentary Bureau motion—S1M-2841—to timetable stage 3 of the Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Bill and stages 2...
Group 1 to Group 4 - no later than 3.45 pm Group 5 and Group 6 - no later than 4.15 pm Motion to pass the Bill - no later than 4.45 pm Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill Stage 2 - no later...
We will first deal with the amendments to the bill before we debate the motion to pass the bill. For the first part of the business, members should have a copy of the bill as amended at stage 2,...
Amendment 7, in the name of Bill Aitken, stands in a group of its own.
I call Roseanna Cunningham to speak to and move amendment 9.
Group 3 relates to restrictions on the reporting of proceedings in cases where rape is alleged. Amendment 10 is grouped with amendment 17.
The knife falls at 3.45 pm. We move to group 4. Amendment 1 is grouped with amendments 2 and 3.
Amendment 14 is in a group on its own.
We move to the final group of amendments. Amendment 4 is grouped with amendments 16, 5 and 6.
Amendment 17 not moved.
The next item of business is a debate on motion S1M-2829, in the name of Jim Wallace, which seeks agreement that the Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Bill be passed. Members...
[THE CONVENER opened the meeting at 16:39]
We move to stage 2 of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill, in a Committee of the Whole Parliament, of which the occupant of the chair is the convener. This is the second time in two...
Motion S1M-2830, in the name of Ross Finnie, seeks agreement that the Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill be passed. I invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their...
There are two questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is, that motion S1M-2829, in the name of Jim Wallace, which seeks agreement that the Sexual Offences...
The final item of business is a members' business debate on motion S1M-2784, in the name of Johann Lamont, on international women's day. The debate will be concluded without any question being...
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