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FIFTH SESSION PROGRAMME: CHANGES FROM EARLIER PROPOSALS DELETIONS/LIMITATIONS

Insider Dealing Bill

Politically unattractive in a fifth Session.

Trademarks Bill

To be about half the length originally proposed.

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Agriculture (Deregulation) Bill

Some

parts (milk) unattractive in a fifth Session; others, eg potato and wool marketing, desirable but simply cannot be fitted in.

Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Bill

Insufficiently strong case given other competing claims.

Criminal Law Bill

Dropped in favour of two much shorter and narrowly focused Bills, Fraud Jurisdiction and Prison Mutiny.

Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Bill

Insufficiently strong case given other competing claims.

Judicial Pensions Bill

Insufficiently strong case given other competing claims. Consultations with the judiciary well advanced: candidate for re- instatement if there is space.

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