Blog by David Hart QC takes a look at the Brexit Bill
The Great Repeal Bill has shrunk more prosaically into the EUWB, but its task is technically arduous. The easy bit is clause 1: the European Communities Act 1972 is repealed on (Br)exit day. Job done? No. Job hardly started.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and Explanatory Notes
There follows 61 pages of Bill designed to take a snapshot of EU law at exit day, and make it all UK law, for the moment. A few exceptions to this, as we will see, but that is the scheme. It adheres to the plan set out in the March 2017 White Paper: import as a job lot, then amend or delete at leisure.