Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in private. 2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Food Safety Act 1990 Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2026 (SSI 2026/Draft) 3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Thresholds) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/299) Scottish Register of Tartans Fees Order 2025 (SSI 2025/334) Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/335) National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/337) The Charities Accounts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/341) 4. Document subject to parliamentary control: The Committee will consider the following— Draft Code of Practice: The Non-Party Campaigner Campaign Expenditure (Scottish Parliament Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (SG/2025/289) 5. Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence from— Lady Ann Paton, Chair, Professor Hector MacQueen, Former Lead Commissioner, and Rachel Rayner, Chief Executive, Scottish Law Commission; and then from— Lorna Richardson, Senior Lecturer, Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh. Dr David Christie, Associate Dean for Academic Development and Student Experience, Robert Gordon University. Dr Jonathan Brown, Lecturer in Scots Private Law, University of Strathclyde. Professor Stephen Bogle, Professor of Law and Interpersonal Justice, University of Glasgow. Dr Hamish Patrick, Member of the Banking, Company and Insolvency Sub-Committee, Law Society of Scotland. 6. Evidence Session: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 5.