Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 8 para. 1A and cross-heading inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Union Withdrawal (Consequential Modifications) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1447), regs. 1(3), 3(2)(b)
1A(1)Any reference which, immediately before IP completion day—U.K.
(a)exists in—
(i)any enactment,
(ii)any EU regulation, EU decision, EU tertiary legislation or provision of the EEA agreement which is to form part of domestic law by virtue of section 3, or
(iii)any document relating to anything falling within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), and
(b)is a reference to (as it has effect from time to time) any of the EU Treaties, any EU instrument or any other document of an EU entity,
is, if the treaty, instrument or document has effect on or after IP completion day by virtue of section 7A or 7B and so far as required for the purposes of relevant separation agreement law, to be read on or after that day as, or including, a reference to the treaty, instrument or document as it so has effect (including, so far as so required, as it has effect from time to time).
(2)In sub-paragraph (1) “treaty” includes any international agreement (and any protocol or annex to a treaty or international agreement).
(3)Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to any other provision made by or under this Act or any other enactment.]