European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill (HL Bill 108)
A
BILL
[AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE]
TO
Confer power on the Prime Minister to notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty
on European Union, the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the
EU.
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:—
1 Power to notify withdrawal from the EU
(1)
The Prime Minister may notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European
Union, the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU.
(2)
Within three months of exercising the power under subsection (1), Ministers of
5the Crown must bring forward proposals to ensure that citizens of another
European Union or European Economic Area country and their family
members, who are legally resident in the United Kingdom on the day on which
this Act is passed, continue to be treated in the same way with regards to their
EU derived-rights and, in the case of residency, their potential to acquire such
10rights in the future.
(3)
This section has effect despite any provision made by or under the European
Communities Act 1972 or any other enactment.
2 Short title
This Act may be cited as the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act
152017.