Justification Decision Power (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Debate between Viscount Ullswater and Lord Adonis

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 Lords Chamber

[Lord Adonis (Lab)]

My Lords—

[The Deputy Speaker (Viscount Ullswater) (Con)]

Order.

[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?