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  European Union (Withdrawal) Bill -  Clause 11 - Power for Devolved Administrations to Amend EU Law Retained as UK Law on Withdrawal
  
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  @ MP voted aye to allow the devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to modify EU law retained as UK law following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
  
  @ MP voted no not to allow the devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to modify EU law retained as UK law following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to allow the devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to modify EU law retained as UK law following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
  
  MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 42, in page 7, line 16, leave out subsections (1) to (3) and insertâ
  
  :â(1) In [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/29 section 29(2)(d) of the Scotland Act 1998] (no competence for Scottish Parliament to legislate incompatibly with EU law), omit âor with EU lawââ.
  
  :(2) In [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/4/section/3 section 108A(2)(e) of the Government of Wales Act 2006] (no competence for National Assembly for Wales to legislate incompatibly with EU law), omit âor with EU lawâ.
  
  :(3) In [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/47/section/6 section 6(2)(d) of the Northern Ireland Act] (no competency for the Assembly to legislate incompatibly with EU law, omit âis incompatible with EU lawâ.â 
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have affected clause 11 of the Bill[2] and would have removed provisions preventing the devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from modifying EU law retained as UK law following the UK's withdrawl from the EU. 
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory note:
  
  :This amendment removes the Billâs proposed restrictions on the ability of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly to legislate on devolved matters.
  
  
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  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/europeanunionwithdrawal.html Parliament's webpage on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0005/cbill_2017-20190005_en_2.htm#pb4-l1g11 Clause 11 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
  
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