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Annex A Consultation - Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment on a Proposed Bill to Reverse House of Lords Judgment in Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd

Responding to this consultation paper

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 4 April 2008 We would be grateful if you would clearly indicate in your response which parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

Please send your response to:Anne.Hampson@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

or

Anne Hampson

If you have any queries contact Anne Hampson on 0131 244 2442

This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.

The Scottish Government now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces SE distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SE consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.

Handling your response

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form attached to Annex B of this letter as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library by 2 May 2008. We will check all responses where agreement to make the response available to the public has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us complete a final Regulatory Impact Assessment on the proposed legislation to reverse the HoL Judgment in Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd. We aim to issue a summary of the consultation responses by mid-June 2008. The final Regulatory Impact Assessment will be published on http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/support/better-regulation/partial-assessments/full

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to: Anne Hampson whose contact details are above.

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