Legislation Committee
- Started
- 13:30
- Contributions
- 6
- Words spoken
- 742
Opening of the meeting
The committee met in the Senedd and by video-conference.
The meeting began at 13:30.
1. Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, all, for being here today. This is the first meeting of the Legislation Committee. It's being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Please can we make sure that mobile phones are switched to silent, just because, as we can see, the microphones are very sensitive? The Senedd operates through the medium of both English and Welsh, so we've got headphones here to assist with that, and interpretation is available during today's meeting. Before we get on to the committee remit and the rest of the papers today, does anyone have any declarations of interest that they'd like to state here today? Fab.
2. Committee remit
So, we're going to move on to item 2, and this one you would have received some information about. Before we discuss more about it, I want to say how I see the committee's work. Although it's not the most visible, it is amongst the most important, so the quality, clarity and accessibility of our laws and the proper scrutiny of what we do is incredibly important and affects everyone in Wales, so I want us all to approach the task in that way. And just to clarify, compared to the last Senedd, this committee is looking slightly differently from the constitutional committee, which has been split off from this one. So, for the record, our remit, as agreed by the Senedd on 16 June, is to carry out the functions of the responsible committee under Standing Orders 21 and 26C, as well as to consider matters relating to legislation and the competence of our laws, accessibility and the clarity of our laws. This means looking at statutory instruments and legislative consent motions, and we will be looking at that in more detail today, because obviously that's a core part of our work. It'll be good, later on, when we look through some of the training that has been prepared, which will be a good introduction before we start going into the more rigorous work next week. So, I invite Members to note the remit. Are there any questions or comments on this item? Fantastic.