Introductory text
United Kingdom
Exiting The European Union
Statistics Of Trade
Sift requirements satisfied 18th December 2018
Made 16th January 2019
Laid before Parliament 17th January 2019
Coming into force in accordance with regulations 1(2) to 1(4)
The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs make regulations 1(1), 1(2), 1(4), 2 to 5, and 7 to 14 below exercising their powers in section 8(1) of, and Schedule 7 paragraph 21 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 M1.
The requirements of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to that Act (relating to the appropriate Parliamentary procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied.
They consider these Regulations appropriate to prevent, remedy or mitigate (a) any failure of retained EU law to operate effectively, or (b) any other deficiency in retained EU law, in either case arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.
They make regulations 1(1) to (3) and 6 exercising their powers in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M2.
They have been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to the receipt, regulation and control of statistics relating to the trading of goods between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the European Union M3.
Annotations
Marginal citations
- M1
2018 c. 16. Section 20(1) provides that in the Act the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are included in the expression “Minister of the Crown”.
- M2
1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 27 and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), Schedule, Part 1 and S.I. 2009/3143.
- M3
S.I. 1992/707; amended by S.I. 2011/1043; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.