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Provide
that Community treaties, Community instruments and Community |
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obligations shall only be
binding in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom |
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insofar as they do not conflict
with a subsequent, expressly inconsistent |
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enactment of the Parliament
of the United Kingdom. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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European
Union Treaties and the United Kingdom Parliament |
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Community treaties, Community
instruments and Community obligations |
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shall be binding in legal
proceedings in the United Kingdom only insofar as |
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they do not conflict with
an enactment to which subsection (2) applies. |
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(2) |
This subsection applies
to any enactment which includes the words: “The |
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provisions of this enactment
shall take effect notwithstanding the provisions of |
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the European Communities
Act 1972.”. |
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“Community
instrument” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of Schedule
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to the European Communities Act 1972; |
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“Community
obligation” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of Schedule
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to
the European Communities Act 1972; |
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“Community
treaties” has the same meaning as in section 1(2) of the
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European
Communities Act 1972; |
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“enactment”
means any Act passed by the Parliament of the United |
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Kingdom
or any statutory instrument made under such an Act. |
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This Act may be cited as the Sovereignty
of Parliament (European |
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