Rush on to consider legislation

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MSPs are being asked to approve record levels of legislation with only three weeks to go until the second session of the Scottish Parliament ends.

Members of one Holyrood body - the subordinate legislation committee - are to consider no fewer than 65 new orders on Tuesday.

The negative statutory instruments are judged not to be controversial and will become law unless MSPs block them.

Issues covered include avian flu, absent voters and horse passports.

The elections to the Scottish Parliament take place on 3 May but the current session will be dissolved at the beginning of April.