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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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(1)
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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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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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1 to the European Communities
Act 1972;
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“Community obligation”
has the same meaning as in Part 2 of Schedule 1
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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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