ABSTRACT
Brexit will engage the UK legislature on several occasions. First, both the withdrawal agreement and the agreement on a future relationship between the EU and the UK, will need to be approved by the UK Parliament. Second, although Brexit itself is a matter of EU law and is ruled by the procedure established in Article 50 Treaty on the European Union, it also involves repeal of the European Communities Act that will become redundant when the UK ceases to be a party to the Treaties. For this purpose, the European Union Act 2018 was passed on 26 June 2018. Therefore, the European Union Act 2018 offers further provisions to try to address these additional problems. First, it preserves domestic secondary legislation enacted in order to implement EU laws. Second, it incorporates into UK domestic law all directly applicable EU legislation, along with the adaptations of EU law to the European Economic Area regime.
