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Corporate Services - Zero-Ten Design Proposal - Approved Sub-Panel Minutes - 10 July 2006

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Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel Zero/Ten Design Proposal Sub Panel

Minutes of 3rd meeting held on 10th July 2006 First Floor Meeting Room, Morier House

Present Senator J Perchard, Chairman

Senator B Shenton

Deputy G Southern

Apologies Deputy P Ryan

Mr B Curtis (Local expert adviser)

Absent

In attendance Mr M Haden, Scrutiny Officer

Miss S Power, Scrutiny Officer

 

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Agenda matter

Action

1.

Minutes

The Sub Panel approved the minutes of the meeting held on 8th June 2006.

 

2.

Zero/Ten Design Proposal Seminar

The Sub Panel noted the notes from the 0/10 Design Proposal seminar held by the Treasury and Resources department on the

26th June 2006.

 

3.

Zero/Ten Design Proposal Submissions -

The  Sub  Panel  noted  submissions  from  Mr  JP  Frith  and  Le Rossignol, Scott Warr en and Company, and agreed it would be beneficial to invite both parties to attend Public Hearings.

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4.

Public Hearing (13th July 2006) -

  1. The Sub Panel received a timetable for the Public Hearing, and noted that Advocate Ohlsson was no longer able to attend.
  1. The  Sub  Panel  considered  its  question  plan  for  the  Public Hearing, based on questions prepared by Richard Teather, and agreed that the following members would deal with the following topics –

Senator Perchard – RUDL charge

Senator Shenton – Distribution and attribution Deputy Southern – Anti-avoidance

Senator Perchard and Deputy Southern arranged to meet with

Richard Teather at 2.30pm on Tuesday 11th July to discuss the Panels questions in more detail. Officer requested to prepare a

draft question plan based on the above three topics in advance of this meeting.

The Sub Panel noted that as a result of section 5.4 of the Draft Code of Practice for Scrutiny Panels and PAC, Richard Teather and Brian Curtis would be unable to ask witnesses questions at Public  Hearings  as  they  were  not  Panel  members  and  were therefore not covered by immunity. The Sub Panel agreed that this would cause problems in Public Hearings for this review, as given  the  technicality  of  the  subject  matter,  it  may  become necessary for advisers to ask witnesses questions to clarify certain

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issues. The  Sub  Panel  therefore  agreed  that  subject  to  the

advisers agreement, section 5.4 of the Draft Code of Practice

would be suspended for this review. However it was also agreed

that it would not be appropriate for States members appearing

before  the  Panel  to  be  questioned  by  expert  advisers,  and SP therefore in these circumstances it would only be Panel members

asking questions. It was agreed that this decision needed to be

brought to the attention of the Chairmen's Committee before the

Public Hearing on Thursday 13th July 2006.

5. AOB

Item 6 Visit to Guernsey

08.06.06 The Sub Panel noted that Guernsey had now debated its Future

Economic and Taxation Strategy. It was agreed that it would be

beneficial for the visit to Guernsey to be combined with Richard's

attendance in the Island for a Public Hearing. Officer requested to

establish whether it would be convenient for the visit to take place SP

on the 1st or the 2nd of August 2006.

Signed Date . ..

Chairman, Zero/Ten Design Proposal Sub Panel