The Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Made: 8th December 2020

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 2020

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Minister for the Cabinet Office, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 and come into force on IP completion day.

Amendments to the Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

2

• (1) The Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (EU Exit) Regulations 2019[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 3—

• (a) in paragraph (1)(a), for “exit day”, in both places it occurs, substitute “IP completion day”;

• (b) in paragraph (1)(b), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”; and

• (c) in paragraph (2), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”.

• (3) In regulation 4(2), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”.

Signed

Penny Mordaunt — Paymaster General — Cabinet Office — 8th December 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations are made in exercise of the power conferred by section 41(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c.1) (“the Act”).

These Regulations amend the Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/673) (“the Principal Regulations”).

The Principal Regulations will come into force on IP completion day by operation of paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Act.

Regulation 2 amends regulations 3 and 4 of the Principal Regulations by substituting “IP completion day” for “exit day” in consequence of the Act. These amendments ensure that regulation 3 and regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations operate by reference to IP completion day, rather than exit day.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2020 c.1.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2019/673.