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  European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Clause 14 - Interpretation
  
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  @ MP voted aye against allowing a minister to alter the date for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
  @ MP voted no to allow  a minister to alter the date for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against allowing a minister to alter the date for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. 
  
  MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill[1].
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 37
  
  Lords amendment 37[2] stated:
  
  :Page 10, line 40, leave out from âmeansâ to end of line 41 and insert âsuch day as a Minister of the Crown may by regulations appoint (and see subsection (2))
  
  
  The Lords amendment sought to amend the definition of "exit day" in Clause 14 of the Bill[3] which stated:
  
  :âexit dayâ means 29 March 2019 at 11.00 p.m. (and see subsections (2) to (5));
  
  Subsections 2-5 stated:
  
  :(2) In this Act references to before, after or on exit day, or to beginning with exit day, are to be read as references to before, after or at 11.00 p.m. on 29 March 2019 or (as the case may be) to beginning with 11.00 p.m. on that day.
  
  :(3) Subsection (4) applies if the day or time on or at which the Treaties are to cease to apply to the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union is different from that specified in the definition of âexit dayâ in subsection (1).
  :(4) A Minister of the Crown may by regulationsâ
  :(a) amend the definition of âexit dayâ in subsection (1) to ensure that the day and time specified in the definition are the day and time that the Treaties are to cease to apply to the United Kingdom, and 
  :(b) amend subsection (2) in consequence of any such amendment.
  :(5) In subsections (3) and (4) âthe Treatiesâ means the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
  
  Explanatory notes to Lords amendment 37[4] stated:
  
  :Lords Amendments 37 and 39 would change the definition of exit day in the Bill. As introduced to the Lords, references to âexit dayâ in the Bill refer to 11pm on 29th March 2019. The Lords Amendments would mean that references to âexit dayâ instead refer to an as yet unappointed day that the Minister may by regulations appoint.
  
  :The Lords Amendments would also remove from the Bill the ability to amend the definition of exit day if the day or time on or at which the EU Treaties are to cease to apply to the UK is different from that specified in the Bill (in which case Ministers are currently permitted to change exit day to the new day or time). 
  
  Amendment 39[2], which was not the subject of this vote, stated:
  
  :Page 11, line 38, leave out subsections (2) to (5) and insertâ
   	
  :â(2)   In this Actâ
  :(a)    where a Minister of the Crown appoints a time as well as a day as exit day (see paragraph 19 of Schedule 7), references to before, after or on that day, or to beginning with that day, are to be read as references to before, after or at that time on that day or (as the case may be) to beginning with that time on that day, and
  
  :(b)    where a Minister of the Crown does not appoint a time as well as a day as exit day, the reference to exit day in section 1 is to be read as a reference to the beginning of that day.â
  
  
  Amendment 37 alone removed the date for withdrawal from the European Union  of 29 March 2019 from clause 14(1) of the Bill for withdrawal from the European Union but left it in clause 14(2). 
  
  
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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/2017-2019/0212/hcb212withoutendorsement.8-14.html Page of amendment sheet containing Lords amendments 37 and 39]
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2017-2019/0079/lbill_2017-20190079_en_2.htm#pb6-l1g14 Clause 14 of the version of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill referred to by the amendment sheet]
  * [4] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0212/en/18212en12.htm Explanatory notes to Lords amendment 37, Parliament.uk website, 22nd May 2018]
  
  
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