Just as the team settled down to enjoy the unusual rendering of
the national anthems at the rugby World Cup this weekend, we were
distracted by the publication by the Department for Business and
Trade of its guidance on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and
Reform) Act 2023 (Revocation and Sunset Disapplication) Regulations
2023. We read these things so that you don't have to - the
guidance is summarized below.
The BaT Guidance on REL(RaR)AR 2023
The Regulations are noteworthy because they mark the first step
in the process envisaged by the Retained EU Law (Revocation and
Reform) Act 2023 (universally known as 'REULA'). The Act
allows for the preservation by way of statutory instrument of some
retained EU law, and (conversely) for the revocation of other EU
derived law. Schedule 1 to the Act provides a list of 587 pieces of
retained EU law which will be repealed on 31st December
2023, either because it is regarded as being obsolete post-Brexit
or because it is now
