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European Communities (Amendment) Bill

This is the text of the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 30 October 1997.

 
  
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 
 
 
  
European Communities (Amendment) Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
Clause 
1.Meaning of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties".
2.European Parliament.
3.Short title.
 

 

 
 
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Make provision consequential on the Treaty signed at Amsterdam on 2nd October 1997 amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related Acts.

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:-
 

Meaning of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties".     1. In section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, in the definition of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties", after paragraph (n) (inserted by the European Union (Accessions) Act 1994) there shall be inserted "and
 
 
    (o) the following provisions of the Treaty signed at Amsterdam on 2nd October 1997 amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related Acts-
 
      (i) Articles 2 to 9,
 
      (ii) Article 12, and
 
      (iii) the other provisions of the Treaty so far as they relate to those Articles,
 
    and the Protocols adopted on that occasion other than the Protocol on Article J.7 of the Treaty on European Union".
European Parliament.     2. For the purpose of section 6 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 (approval of treaties increasing the Parliament's powers) the Treaty signed at Amsterdam on 2nd October 1997 amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related Acts is approved.
 
Short title.     3. This Act may be cited as the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1997.
 
 

 
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