Modification of retained EU law Scope of powers
This Act modifies powers in other statutes, to facilitate their use to amend retained direct EU legislation (RDEUL) in the same way that they can be used to amend domestic secondary legislation. In effect this ensures RDEUL has a more appropriate status in UK law, downgrading it from primary to secondary status for the purposes of amendment.
	Schedule 8 to EUWA limited the use of such powers by treating Retained Direct Principal EU Legislation as equivalent in status to an Act of Parliament, however this legislation has not undergone the same detailed democratic scrutiny by the UK Parliament.
	This Act simplifies the status of RDEUL, ensuring that all RDEUL is treated as equivalent to domestic secondary legislation, thus clarifying that it may be amended in a similar way.