Clause 18 — Status of EU law dependent on continuing statutory basis

Part of Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) – in the House of Commons at 9:45 pm on 11 January 2011.

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Photo of David Lidington David Lidington The Minister for Europe 9:45, 11 January 2011

Parliament has the right, which the courts would be obliged to uphold, to repeal or amend the European Communities Act 1972 or any part of it. It also has the constitutional power to disapply a particular piece of EU law, although that would provoke the sort of political crisis in our relations with the EU that I alluded to earlier.