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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-withdrawal-act-2018/schedule-8/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/16",
  "legislation_title": "European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-withdrawal-act-2018",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any power to make, confirm or approve subordinate legislation which—\n(a) was conferred before the day on which this Act is passed, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nis to be read, so far as the context permits or requires, as being capable of being exercised to modify (or, as the case may be, result in the modification of) any assimilated direct legislation ....\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3(1)(b) and word omitted (29.6.2023) by virtue of Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), ss. 9(2)(a), 22(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 3(1) substituted (1.1.2024) by Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), s. 22(3), Sch. 2 para. 8(15)(b) (with s. 22(6)); S.I. 2023/1363, reg. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 3(1) omitted (1.1.2024) by virtue of The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 89(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3(2) omitted (29.6.2023) by virtue of Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), ss. 9(2)(b), 22(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 paras. 3-8 applied (with modifications) (30.1.2020) by Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 (c. 2), ss. 2(3)-(5), 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 30.1.2020 for specified purposes by 2020 c. 2, s. 2(11)(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2020/1622, reg. 3(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/16/schedule/8/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:51.422677+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}