Part 7: Subsidy Control Subsidy Control Section 52: Regulation of distortive or harmful subsidies
This section reserves to the UK Parliament the exclusive ability to legislate for a subsidy control regime once the UK ceases to follow EU State aid rules. This can address the effects of distortive or harmful subsidies, whether that is in relation to international trade or the UK internal market.
	For this purpose, the section provides interpretations of "subsidy", a "distortive or harmful" subsidy and a "public authority".
	This section amends Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 and Schedule 7A to the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Scotland and Wales respectively to make the regulation of distortive or harmful subsidies a ‘reserved matter’. In respect of Northern Ireland, the provision amends Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to make regulation in this area an ‘excepted matter’. The effect of these amendments is that the devolved legislatures cannot legislate in this area as it will be an exclusive competence of the UK Parliament.