The Criminal Justice (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

The Criminal Justice (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (“the Criminal Justice SI� or “the SI�) are made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the Act�). Its purpose is to address failures in retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) by amending the domestic legislation which implemented five EU criminal justice measures.

Sifting committees� recommendation

The sifting committees disagreed with the government and recommended that this statutory instrument needs to be debated in parliament.

Statutory instrument

Explanatory memorandum

Updates to this page

Published 22 November 2018
Last updated 10 December 2018 show all updates
  1. Updated with sifting committees' decision

  2. First published.