division_name: Eu Exit Day Amendment
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b429.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That the draft European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-25">25 March</phrase>, be approved.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b431.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;provide the Government with the technical ability to amend the date, but only if the UK and the EU unanimously decide to change the date at which treaties cease to apply to the UK, as set out in article 50.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-20">20 December</phrase> 2017; Vol. 633, c. 1155.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b433.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the article 50 period will only be extended if the House votes for a statutory instrument to give effect to such an extension&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b433.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government would have to lay a statutory instrument and the House would have to debate and vote on it.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-22">22 March</phrase> 2019; Vol. 656, c. 1377.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b435.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;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&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b436.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Exit day will be dependent on the withdrawal negotiations with the EU.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b437.2/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The legal concern which some lawyers have expressed is that a power to specify the day and time when the treaties are to cease to apply is not satisfied by identifying two possibilities; it is not possible, if this SI is enacted, to identify exit day simply by reading it.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-26">26 March</phrase> 2019; Vol. 796, c. 1721.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b440.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 20(4)&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b440.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.&#8221;</p>