Section 5 Interpretation of Part 1I1

In this Part—

• “appropriate authority” means—

  1. (a)

     a Minister of the Crown, or

  2. (b)

     a devolved authority;

• “devolved authority” means—

  1. (a)

     the Scottish Ministers,

  2. (b)

     the Welsh Ministers, or

  3. (c)

     a Northern Ireland department;

• “free trade agreement” means an agreement that is or was notifiable under—

  1. (a)

     paragraph 7(a) of Article XXIV of GATT, or

  2. (b)

     paragraph 7(a) of Article V of GATS;

• “GATS” means the General Agreement on Trade in Services, part of Annex 1B to the WTO Agreement (as modified from time to time);

• “GATT” means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, part of Annex 1A to the WTO Agreement (as modified from time to time);

• “primary legislation” means—

  1. (a)

     an Act of Parliament,

  2. (b)

     an Act of the Scottish Parliament,

  3. (c)

     a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru, or

  4. (d)

     Northern Ireland legislation;

• “subordinate legislation” has the meaning given in section 20(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;

• “the WTO Agreement” means the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation signed at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994.

In this Part a reference to being a signatory to an international trade agreement includes a reference to—

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—

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In this section, “domestic law” means the law of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.