"The Great Repeal Act" announced by the Government

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic...e=news_central
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...xe-to-eu-laws/

Brexit begins: Government announces "The Great Repeal Act"

Mechanism for Brexit starts as European Communities Act 1972 is to be repealed alongside all EU Law

Theresa May will on Sunday announce she will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act in a move that will formally begin the process of making Britain’s Parliament sovereign once again.

Addressing the Conservative Party Conference for the first time as leader, Mrs May will declare that her Government will begin work to end the legislation that gives European Union law supremacy in Britain.

The government will also enshrine all existing EU law into British law and anything deemed unnecessary will be abolished later.

In its place, a new “Great Repeal Bill” will be introduced in Parliament as early as next year to put power for the nation’s laws back into the hands of MPs and peers.

The announcement is Mrs May’s first firm commitment on Brexit since becoming Prime Minister in July and marks a major step on the road to ending the country’s EU membership.

May: "This marks the first stage in the UK becoming a sovereign and independent country once again."

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) October 1, 2016

Leading Eurosceptics are likely to cheer the news after they put repealing the law at the heart of a “Brexit manifesto” published just days before the referendum. Ministers will also announce protections for workers’ rights secured via Brussels, such as parental leave and automatic holiday, to pre-empt Labour attacks.

It is intended to show critics that No 10 does have a plan for Brexit, after weeks of sniping that the Government does not have a clear strategy for the forthcoming negotiations.

Mrs May will take to the stage with her three Brexit Cabinet ministers – Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis – to show a unified front on the first day of conference.

She said on Saturday night: “We will introduce, in the next Queen’s Speech, a Great Repeal Bill that will remove the European Communities Act from the statute book. That was the act that took us into the European Union.

“This marks the first stage in the UK becoming a sovereign and independent country once again. It will return power and authority to the elected institutions of our county. It means that the authority of EU law in Britain will end.

The three Secretaries of State (Foreign/Commonwealth, Trade & Brexit) known as the Three Brexiteers

Mr Davis, who is charged with leading the negotiations as Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, will explain the decision during his speech.

“EU law will be transposed into domestic law, wherever practical, on exit day,” he will say. “It will be for elected politicians here to make the changes to reflect the outcome of our negotiation and our exit. That is what people voted for: power and authority residing once again with the sovereign institutions of our own country.”

And so it begins and we see a road map play out.

This idea has been popular in eurosceptic circles for years. Basically, move to end EU supremacy and EU institutions having power over us but at the same time copy most EU law into our law so that a majority of changes to that legislation can be done legally and after we've left rather than sifting through 42 years of EU law before we left.

We said Vote Leave and Take Back Control and it is happening. British Laws decided by British people alone, period.

Thoughts?

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Will this remove the need for the long-awaited Article 50 announcement? I assume that repealing the decision that was made in the first place would make it so that we move on as though it all never happened, but if not then this is essentially a diversion from the fact that they keep putting off the proper withdrawal decision

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Will this remove the need for the long-awaited Article 50 announcement? I assume that repealing the decision that was made in the first place would make it so that we move on as though it all never happened, but if not then this is essentially a diversion from the fact that they keep putting off the proper withdrawal decision

Article 50 will still happen but I think this is more a case of separating ourselves from it rather than dragging negotiations on. If legislation relating to what to do with existing EU law is ready to be enacted once A50 negotiations are completed or even abruptly ended then legally we've got ourselves covered as we wouldn't suddenly find legal loopholes and vacuums everywhere in our law once the ECJ no longer applies the very night we are formally out.

That's my analysis of it anyway.

[FlyingJesus]

But surely if we have an entire repeal of the European Communities Act it would make it so that it was as though we were never in the EEC/EU in the first place, so Article 50 wouldn't be something we'd need or even be able to enact point, if both are needed then at least one of them is completely pointless

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But surely if we have an entire repeal of the European Communities Act it would make it so that it was as though we were never in the EEC/EU in the first place, so Article 50 wouldn't be something we'd need or even be able to enact point, if both are needed then at least one of them is completely pointless

Technically yeah, Parliament is sovereign so a repeal of the EEC Act would mean we'd be out - although that'd be in violation of the later Treaty of Lisbon we had signed which states the Article 50 route. Really you don't need Article 50 to leave as it's the repeal of the 1972 Act that makes leaving a legal fact, but Article 50 was put into the treaties so that there was a guaranteed negotiation on a future relationship path rather than simply leaving overnight or being stuck in endless deadlock.

There's been more news this morning that the Government is to trigger Article 50 by March so we'll see Article 50 triggered then with negotiations beginning, and the Great Repeal Act will be in May's (the month!) Queen's Speech and will be activated once A50 over. David Davies MP is my 'canary in the coalmine' in all of this, so as long as he's happy I am happy.

Prime Minister Theresa May says Article 50, to begin UK's exit from EU, will be triggered before end of March 2017 https://t.co/yIgXNFWclP

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 2, 2016