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Rich Greenhill
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Aug 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In which the Secretary of State designates himself as the notifying authority for Great Britain for the purposes of Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products implementing Chapter IV of the EU Regulation in Great Britain with effect from 24 September 2020, somewhat missing the EU’s implementation date of 16 April 2020 but in good time for the Regulation coming fully into force across Europe on 16 July 2022
Jul 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And the award for most creative use of an Explanatory Note to a Statutory Instrument goes to… legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/759/… the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 🎉 Image for attention to detail while glossing over the cheeky jettisoning of Part 44 of the old Rules (“Request to the European Court for a Preliminary Ruling”) to make way for a new Part 44 (“Reopening a Case in a Magistrates’ Court”) with effect from 5 October 2020
Jun 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
In accordance with the EU Plant Health Regulation, the UK notified the European Commission on 10 March 2020 of a measure “it would have liked to be taken” by the EU against two tree pests eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received… In accordance with the same Regulation, the UK gave notice of unilateral #TemporaryNationalMeasures in the absence of EU controls. Lord Gardiner of Kimble duly signed those measures into English law on 30 March with effect from 21 April
Dec 15, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“no enactment provides authority for the Commons to order by-elections to occur… one of the those truly unwritten constitutional things” blog.benl.co.uk/2019/11/disqua… @tc1415 on House of Commons disqualifications, by-elections, and writs of supersedeas #SitsVac A by-election writ is ordered by warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons – the only case in which the Great Seal is used without a royal or ministerial signature archive.org/details/in.ern… h/t Sir Wm Anson & Professor A. Berriedale Keith We can therefore consider…the modes in which authority is given for affixing the Great Seal.<br /> They are four:<br /> A *fiat* of the Chancellor or Attorney-General, or warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons.<br /> An Order in Council.<br /> A sign manual warrant.<br /> A sign manual preceded by an Order in Council.<br /> …<br /> Writs for by-elections…are issued from the Crown Office on the authority of a warrant from the Speaker…
Sep 4, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019 laid in draft before Parliament today legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/978… criminalising lorry drivers in Kent who leave the UK via a non-specified road or fail to produce papers showing origin+destination and what they are carrying The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… banning EU-bound lorries from local roads in Kent during restriction periods legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… signed yesterday but subject to Parliamentary approval This Order supports Operation Brock by restricting access to the local road network. Specifically, heavy goods vehicles that are leaving the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel or the Port of Dover will not be permitted to use any road in Kent maintained by Highways England, Kent County Council or Medway Council other than:<br /> • motorways, save for parts of the M20 motorway (see paragraph 7.5 below);<br /> • the A2 and A20…
May 2, 2018 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
There is an island off the coast of Wales that the Government forgot For centuries, most local government in England and Wales was necessarily provided by the only ubiquitous* local authority: the Church of England – though its parish councils, or “vestries” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestry