Section 7A: General implementation of remainder of withdrawal agreement, European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Subsection (2) applies to—

all such rights, powers, liabilities, obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the withdrawal agreement, and

all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the withdrawal agreement,

as in accordance with the withdrawal agreement are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom.

The rights, powers, liabilities, obligations, restrictions, remedies and procedures concerned are to be—

recognised and available in domestic law, and

enforced, allowed and followed accordingly.

Every enactment (including an enactment contained in this Act) is to be read and has effect subject to subsection (2).

The following provide for the application in Northern Ireland of EU law relating to the trade in goods necessary for the functioning of the Windsor Framework in the withdrawal agreement to be subject to democratic consent and scrutiny—

Articles 13 and 18 of that Framework, and

Part 5A of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

This section does not apply in relation to Part 4 of the withdrawal agreement so far as section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 applies in relation to that Part.

Section 7A: General implementation of remainder of withdrawal agreement

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