The Customs (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1605

Exiting The European Union

Customs

The Customs (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Made

18th December 2020

Laid before the House of Commons

21st December 2020

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19, 30B, 30C(5) to (7), 31(6), 32(7), (8) and (13), 33(4A)(b), (4B) and (6)(b), 40(6) and (7), 40A(2), 40B, 52(2) and 56(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 5, 6, 7 and 23 of Schedule 2 to, the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 M1 .

The Treasury consider it appropriate in consequence of, or otherwise in connection with, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union that the following Regulations come into force on such day as the Treasury may by regulations under section 52 of that Act appoint.

Marginal Citations

M1 2018 c. 22. Sections 30B, 30C, 40A and 40B were inserted by sections 1 and 2 of the Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020 (c. 26 “the 2020 Act”). Section 33(4A) and (4B) were inserted by Schedule 1 to the 2020 Act. Section 40B(5) applies section 40 to regulations under section 40A as it applies to regulations under section 39 other than the first regulations under that section. The Treasury is the “appropriate Minister” by virtue of section 56(5)(b) for the purposes of section 56.