{"id":46497,"date":"2019-10-17T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=46497"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:10:58","slug":"i-strongly-suspect-the-proposed-brexit-deal-is-illegal-in-uk-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/17\/i-strongly-suspect-the-proposed-brexit-deal-is-illegal-in-uk-law\/","title":{"rendered":"I strongly suspect the proposed Brexit deal is illegal in UK law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have commented already on this morning's published Brexit deal. I omitted to mention that it is likely to also be illegal under this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2018\/22\/section\/55\/enacted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40-550x309.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40-550x309.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40-534x300.png 534w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.40.png 1954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>I have checked what subsection 2 means by reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/docs_e\/legal_e\/gatt47.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GATT agreement<\/a>. It says:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/17\/i-strongly-suspect-the-proposed-brexit-deal-is-illegal-in-uk-law\/screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12-04-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.20-550x103.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.20-550x103.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.20-768x144.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.20-600x113.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-17-at-12.04.20.png 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is not a shadow of a doubt that under the new Brexit deal Northen Ireland has substantially different tariffs and most especially other regulations for commerce from the UK: it will be in the single market when the rest of the UK is not, for example.\u00a0 \u00a0And there will be a customs border between it and the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Now that 2018 law could be repealed, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But that would acknowledge that the ERG has really sold out.<\/p>\n<p>What will they be saying about it? The reality is that the issue will have to be addressed: the GATT would appear to require it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have commented already on this morning&#8217;s published Brexit deal. I omitted to mention that it is likely to also be illegal under this legislation:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/17\/i-strongly-suspect-the-proposed-brexit-deal-is-illegal-in-uk-law\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}