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  Orders of the Day - New Clause 9 - Supremacy of Parliament
  
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  <p>The Aye-voters failed to carry an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=98">clause</a> 9 of the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> that would have said:</p>
  
  <blockquote> Notwithstanding any provision of the European Communities Act 1972, nothing in this Act shall affect or be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting the supremacy of the United Kingdom Parliament. </blockquote>
  
  <p>This rejected clause can be described as an example of Eurosceptic mischief, since the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1972/19720068.htm"> European Communities Act 1972</a> states that:</p>
  
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  All... obligations... arising... under the [European] Treaties... are... to be given legal effect... in... United Kingdom... law.
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  <p>In other words, laws passed in accordance with European Union treaties are superior to United Kingdom law, and this clause was an attempt to ignore this fact in the case of laws made under this Bill.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1877.4/1"><i> The Committee having divided:</i> Ayes 48, Noes 380.</p>
  
  
  
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