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In a No Deal scenario, the UK Government has indicated that EU citizens’ rights will be protected, but that there will be certain changes:
(a) they will have no right of appeal to the European Court of Justice
(b) the UK deportation threshold (which is more stringent than the EU equivalent) would replace the EU deportation threshold for any crimes committed after 29 March 2019; and
(c) there will be a new cut-off date...
Power exercised by: regulations made by statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: affirmative
The power to make regulations includes:
power to make different provision for different categories of person to whom they apply, for example to define categories by reference to a person’s date of arrival in the UK, their immigration status or nationality (clau...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2019
Specifically, Part 2 of the instrument amends out of date references in domestic legislation to EU instruments to ensure a functioning statute book in time for exit day.
Defra has provided the following details -
Pilot workers must be at least 18 years old on the date of application and be from outside of the European Union
Scheme operators will be licenced by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) and will have to ensure farms where labour is placed adhere to relevant legislation, including the National Minimum...
These provisions would likely benefit debtors;
amending the start date of twenty year prescription so that it begins with the ‘act or omission’ rather than at the time of ‘loss or damage’ (section 8).
The Committee explored: the policy behind the change; whether the proposed earlier start date would result in more harsh cases (ie rights being extinguished before any claim had been made), and the language associated with the proposed change, particularly how an ‘omission’ would be identified.