Citation and interpretation

1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2018 and comes into force on 1st November 2018.

(2) In this Order—

“designated” means designated for the purposes of section 2(2), and similar expressions are to be construed accordingly;

“exit day” has the meaning given by section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018( 2 );

“Minister or department” means a Minister of the Crown, government department (including a Northern Ireland department) or the Welsh Ministers;

“section 2(2)” means section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972;

“subordinate legislation” means orders, rules, regulations or schemes made under section 2(2).

Designation in relation to multilingual standard forms

2. The Secretary of State is designated in relation to the issuance of multilingual standard forms by the Registrar General for England and Wales.

Designation in relation to geo-blocking

3. The Secretary of State is designated in relation to geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination in the context of trade in goods and services, where such discrimination is based on customers’ nationality, place of residence, or place of establishment within the internal market.

Revocation of existing designations

4. —(1) This Order does not restrict the scope of any designation made by any other Order.

(2) Where—

(a) a Minister or department is designated by this Order, and

(b) any other Minister or department is designated in relation to the same matter by this or any other Order,

any of them may make subordinate legislation in relation to that matter jointly.

Expiry

5. This Order ceases to have effect on exit day.