Ministers to ditch deadline to scrap retained EU laws

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The authorities volition ditch its end-of-year deadline to reappraisal EU-era laws copied implicit aft Brexit.

Under the Retained EU Law Bill, thousands of laws were owed to expire automatically adjacent January unless they were specifically kept oregon replaced.

It had sparked interest that important laws could autumn distant by accident.

But minsters person present said that alternatively of the cut-off point, they volition travel up with a database of laws they privation to regenerate by the extremity of 2023.

In a statement, the concern section said it would marque the alteration done an amendment erstwhile the measure returns to Parliament adjacent week.