European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986
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The European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) is an Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
which saw the first major amendment to the European Communities Act 1972 since the UK first joined the
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thirteen years earlier to include the provisions that was agreed in the
Single European Act The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Foreign ...
which was signed on 17 and 28 February 1986 and be incorporated into the domestic law of the
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It was given
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on 7 November 1986. The Act was repealed by the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (also known as the Great Repeal Act) is an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provides both for repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 (UK), European Communities A ...
on 31 January 2020.


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* European single market {{UK legislation Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Union United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1986 Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom