Powers relating to retained EU law Section 11: Power to restate retained EU law
Section 11 establishes the power to restate provisions of "secondary REUL", (i.e. including the codification of directly effective rights etc. under section 4 of EUWA, retained case law and general principles). Once restated, this legislation will no longer be REUL, and retained general principles, retained case law or the principle of supremacy will not apply. The power does, however, enable the effects of those things to be reproduced. This will enable the same policy outcome to be achieved as the policy outcome produced by the REUL being restated. This power will be capable of making limited amendments to both domestic primary and secondary legislation.
	Subsection (1) sets out that a relevant national authority (a UK government or devolved government minister) may, by regulations, restate any "secondary retained EU law", defined by subsection (2) as any retained EU law that is not primary legislation, or any retained EU law that is primary legislation, but only to the extent that it has been amended by subordinate legislation. This means that amendments made to primary legislation by subordinate legislation may be restated under the power in subsection (1).
	Section 11 is supplemented by section 13, which establishes further general parameters of what a restatement can do and how (see below).
	Subsection (3) states that any provision made by this power will no longer be REUL. Amongst other things, this means that section 6 of EUWA (application of retained case law) will no longer apply.
	Subsections (4) and (5) establish that the interpretive effects associated with REUL will cease to have effect for the purposes of interpreting restatement provisions. In particular, the principle of supremacy will cease to have effect, retained general principles will cease to be read into the law, and anything that is REUL by virtue of section 4 (retained directly effective rights) or 6(3) or (6) of EUWA (application of retained case law) will cease to have effect.
	Subsection (6) establishes that a relevant authority may, as part of any restatement, reproduce into domestic legislation an effect that is equivalent to that produced by those interpretive effects that have ceased to apply under subsections (4) and (5). However, the power cannot reproduce the principle of supremacy or general principles per se, but only particular effects derived from them (this is set out in section 13 below). This enables relevant authorities to achieve the same policy outcome as the REUL being restated, where considered appropriate.
	Subsection (7) establishes that this power expires at the end of 31 December 2023.