§ Lord Burtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly will have to approve the draft regulations to restrict the use of lead shot; and, if so, whether it will still be possible for the draft regulations to come into force on 1 September 1999. [HL2538]
§ Lord WhittyFrom 1 July this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. There is no proposal to make a single set of regulations concerning the whole of Great Britain.
§ Lord Burtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether it would be anomalous for the draft regulations to restrict the use of lead shot to be in operation on one side of the Solway Firth and Dee estuary but not the other. [HL2539]
§ Lord WhittyNo. It is a consequence of devolution that the law on devolved matters may not be identical in Scotland or in Wales to what it is in England. In a number of respects existing law is, of course, already different in Scotland and Wales to that in England.