Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 718
Exiting The European Union
The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
Made
at 12.40 p.m. on 28th March 2019
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The day on which the Treaties( 1 ) are to cease to apply to the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union is different from that specified in the definition of “exit day” in section 20(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018( 2 ).
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(4) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.
In accordance with paragraph 14 of Schedule 7 to that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into force immediately after they are made.
Amendment to the definition of “exit day”
2. —(1)Section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (interpretation) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), in the definition of “exit day”, for “29 March 2019 at 11.00 p.m. (and” substitute—
“ —
(a) if, in accordance with Article 1 of European Council Decision ( EU ) 2019/476 of 22 March 2019 ( 3 ) , the period provided for in Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union is extended until 22 May 2019, 11.00 p.m. on that day, or
(b) if not, 11.00 p.m. on 12 April 2019,
(and ” .
(3) In subsection (2) for the words from “references”, where it first appears, to the end substitute—
“ —
(a) references to before, after or on exit day are to be read as references to before, after or at 11.00 p.m. on 22 May 2019 or (as the case may be) 12 April 2019, and
(b) references to beginning with exit day are to be read as references to beginning with 11.00 p.m. on the day concerned. ” .
Robin Walker
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Exiting the European Union
At 12.40 p.m. on 28th March 2019
“The Treaties” has the meaning given in section 20(5) of the European Union (Withdrawal) 2018 (c. 16) .
OJ No. L 80 I, 22.03.2019, p. 1.