On the right hand side bar of this blog, a bit further down is a feed from DEXEU giving the latest Statutory Instruments that are being churned out like cheap metal parts from a stamping machine. Apparently, we need somewhere between 800-1000 of these and I assume as we get nearer to exit day the giant pressing unit in Whitehall will be cranked up to ever higher speed. The amusing thing is the titles.
They seem to get ever and ever longer. What about these by way of examples:
The Road Vehicles (Registration, Registration and Excise Exemption) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
The Cat and Dog Fur (Control of Import, Export and Placing on the Market) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
The
Merchant Shipping (Accident
Reporting and Investigation) and the Railways (Accident Investigation and Reporting)
(Amendment)
(EU Exit) Regulations
2018
When you look at the SI's themselves (I take the last one above as an example) this is the sort of thing you see - and remember, this is just the first section of the SI not the whole nine pages, which go on in more or less the same way plus an explanatory note at the end:
The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2012 (a) are amended in accordance with this Part.
Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)
3. — (1) Regulation 2(1) is amended as follows.
(2) Omit the definition of “Council Directive 1999/35/EC”.
(3) Omit the definition of “Directive vessel”.
(4) Omit the definition of “the Directive”
(5) Omit the definition of “EMCIP”.
(6) For the definition of “IMO Code”, substitute
— ““IMO Code” means the Code of the International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident (Casualty Investigation Code) adopted by the IMO by Resolution MSC.255(84) on 16th May 2008 (b);”.
(7) Omit the definition of “ro-ro ferry” and “high speed passenger craft”.
(8) Before the definition of “safety investigation”, insert — ““relevant vessel” means any vessel other than a vessel —
(a) falling within regulation 4(1)(a)(i) to (iii);
(b) that is a warship;
(c) that is not propelled by mechanical means;
(d) that is a wooden vessel of traditional build which is not primarily propelled by mechanical means, including a dhow or junk which is made of wood and provided with sails; or
(e) that is a fishing vessel of less than 15 metres length overall;”.
(9) For the definition of “substantial interest”, substitute —
““Substantially Interested State” has the meaning given in the IMO Code;”
This is all being done in the name of Brexit. Of the 800-1000, the government has so far got round to 41 at the time of writing. The future will be a bit like the sorcerer's apprentice with the pressing machine racing out of control until the stack of SI's is so high you'll be able to see them from the queue of trucks on the M20 waiting to pass through Dover.
The complete current list of statutory instruments is HERE.
The complete current list of statutory instruments is HERE.
