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  European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Clause 1 - Northern Ireland
  
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  @ MP voted aye for notice of the UK's withdrawal from the EU to preserve rights acquired in Northern Ireland as a result of European Union membership and to preserve the right of the people of Northern Ireland determine for themselves if they prefer a union with Great Britain or a sovereign united Ireland.
  @ MP voted no against requiring notice of the UK's withdrawal from the EU to preserve rights acquired in Northern Ireland as a result of European Union membership and against requiring the notification to preserve the right of the people of Northern Ireland determine for themselves if they prefer a union with Great Britain or a sovereign united Ireland.
  
  The majority of MPs voted for notice of the UK's withdrawal from the EU to preserve rights acquired in Northern Ireland as a result of European Union membership, and to preserve the right of the people of Northern Ireland determine for themselves if they prefer a union with Great Britain or a sovereign united Ireland and to retain the Republic of Ireland's status of not being considered a foreign country for the purposes of UK law. 
  
  MPs were considering the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill[1]. 
  
  The proposed amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 86, page 1, line 5, at end insertâ
  
  :âwith the exception of the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/47/contents Northern Ireland Act 1998] and section 2 of the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/41/contents/enacted Ireland Act 1949], and subject toâ
  
  :(a) the United Kingdomâs obligations under [http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/pdf/2000/TS0050.pdf the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland of 10 April 1998], and
  
  :(b) preserving acquired rights in Northern Ireland under European Union law.â
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory note:
  
  :This amendment requires the power to notify withdrawal to be exercised with regard to the constitutional, institutional and rights provisions of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement the Belfast Agreement].
  
  Had it not been rejected the above text would have been added to the end of clause 1 of the Bill[2].
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/europeanunionnotificationofwithdrawal.html Parliament's webpage on the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2016-17]
  * [2] [https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0132/cbill_2016-20170132_en_2.htm#l1g1 Text of the Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
  
  
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