{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-act-2021/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-act-2021/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/10",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-act-2021",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 1",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“appropriate authority” means—\n(a)a Minister of the Crown, or\n(b)a devolved authority;\n“devolved authority” means—\n(a)the Scottish Ministers,\n(b)the Welsh Ministers, or\n(c)a Northern Ireland department;\n“free trade agreement” means an agreement that is or was notifiable under—\n(a)paragraph 7(a) of Article XXIV of GATT, or\n(b)paragraph 7(a) of Article V of GATS;\n“GATS” means the General Agreement on Trade in Services, part of Annex 1B to the WTO Agreement (as modified from time to time);\n“GATT” means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, part of Annex 1A to the WTO Agreement (as modified from time to time);\n“primary legislation” means—\n(a)an Act of Parliament,\n(b)an Act of the Scottish Parliament,\n(c)a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru, or\n(d)Northern Ireland legislation;\n“subordinate legislation” has the meaning given in section 20(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;\n“the WTO Agreement” means the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation signed at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994.\n(2) In this Part a reference to being a signatory to an international trade agreement includes a reference to—\n(a) exchanging instruments, where the exchange constitutes the agreement;\n(b) acceding to the agreement.\n(3) In this Part a reference to a draft of regulations being laid is a reference to a draft of the regulations, or a draft of the instrument containing the regulations, being laid before—\n(a) each House of Parliament, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(1) or 5 of Schedule 2 applies;\n(b) the Scottish Parliament, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 applies;\n(c) Senedd Cymru, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 2 applies;\n(d) the Northern Ireland Assembly, in the case of regulations to which paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 2 applies.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In this section, “domestic law” means the law of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(4) 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. 98(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 6.5.2021 by S.I. 2021/550, reg. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/10/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:54.878459+00:00",
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    "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."
  }
}