Retained EU Law (Revocation And Reform) Bill – Update On Progress

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL Bill) has now completed its report stage in the House of Lords and is due to have its 3^rd Reading on 22 May, after which it will return to the Commons. A reprint of the REUL Bill showing the substantial amendments made at this stage will be published shortly.

All the Government amendments to the REUL Bill have been passed, so that the REUL Bill, as it now stands, provides for the repeal of some 600 specified pieces of retained EU law at end of 2023 and lays down processes to be followed for the future replacement by purely domestic legislation of other retained EU law (to be renamed "assimilated law") still in force. These processes can be used for any retained EU law, except for financial services measures listed in the Financial Services and Markets Bill (also making its way through Parliament), to which a somewhat different replacement process with apply. This does not exclude the use of primary legislation