Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 859
Exiting The European Union
The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019
Made
at 3.15 p.m. on 11th April 2019
Laid before Parliament
at 4:15p.m.on 11th April 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( 3 ), makes the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 2) 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 the words from “means—” to “(and”, substitute “means 31 October 2019 at 11.00 p.m. (and”.
(3) In subsection (2), for the words from “Act—” to the end of the subsection, substitute “Act references to before, after or on exit day, or to beginning with exit day, are to be read as references to before, after or at 11.00 p.m. on 31 October 2019 or (as the case may be) to beginning with 11.00 p.m. on that day.”.
James Cleverly
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Exiting the European Union
At 3.15 p.m. on 11th April 2019
“The Treaties” has the meaning given in section 20(5) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) .
2018 c. 16 . The definition of “exit day” in section 20(1) and (2) was amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 2019/718 .
Paragraph 14 of Schedule 7 (procedure for regulations amending the definition of “exit day”) to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) was amended by section 2 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019 (c. 16) .