A
BILL
TO
Make provision for the supremacy of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom
Parliament in relation to the United Kingdom's membership of the European
Union; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Notwithstanding any provision of the European Communities Act 1972, as
amended, or any other primary or subordinate legislation in force in the United
Kingdom—
(a)
5this Act shall have effect and shall be construed as having effect and
deemed at all times to have had effect by the courts of the United
Kingdom;
(b)
a Minister of the Crown may make an order disapplying an otherwise
legally binding European Union measure, or provision thereof;
(c)
10where, on a motion supported by not fewer than 100 Members, each
House of Parliament passes a resolution in identical terms to disapply
an otherwise legally binding European Union measure, or provision
thereof, a Minister of the Crown shall forthwith make an order giving
effect to the terms of that resolution;
(d)
15where, on a motion supported by not fewer than 100 Members, each
House of Parliament passes a resolution in identical terms instructing a
Minister of the Crown to vote against the adoption of a European
Union initiative or proposal, the Minister shall so vote;
(e)
where each House of Parliament has passed a resolution as defined in
20paragraph (d), and the European Union initiative or proposal is
nonetheless adopted and given legislative force in the European Union,
that measure shall not form part of the law applicable in any part of the
United Kingdom; and
(f)
nothing in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights of the
25European Union shall be binding on any person or a public authority
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in any legal proceeding of the United Kingdom and shall not form part
of the law applicable in any part of the United Kingdom.
No Bill shall be presented to Her Majesty the Queen for her Royal Assent which
5contravenes, or amends, this Act or which purports so to do unless the Bill has
been approved by both Houses of Parliament and has also been approved in a
referendum of the electorate of the United Kingdom pursuant to an Act.
A statutory instrument containing an order under—
(a)
10section 1(b) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been
laid before, and approved by, a resolution of each House of Parliament,
and
(b)
section 1(c) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of
either House of Parliament.
(1) This Act may be cited as United Kingdom Parliament (Sovereignty) Act 2013.
(2) This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.