Justification Decision Power (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
Viscount Ullswater Excerpts(5 years, 9 months ago)
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Lord Adonis
I am intervening on the Minister before he sits down. Will the organisation called the justifying authority, which I understand is the organisation which takes these decisions, be affected in any way by the regulations, or will it continue in the same way after a no-deal withdrawal as before? This is a very technical area with which I am not familiar, but my reading of the regulations is that there is an organisation called the justifying authority whose decisions at present depend on EU law and the Government are investing those decision-making powers in the same authority but through UK law. Can the Minister confirm that that is the case and that I have understood it properly?
Lord Pannick (CB)
Can I ask the Minister some questions before he sits down?
The Deputy Speaker
My Lords, perhaps I should put the question and then the debate can commence. The question is that this Motion be agreed to.
Lord Pannick
I have two questions for the Minister. When were these regulations published, and has there been any public consultation on their content?