Overview of the Act
The Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Act 2023 provides the necessary measures to implement the United Kingdom’s first "from scratch" free trade agreements (FTAs) in over 50 years. In particular, the Act provides a power:
to ensure that the UK can implement in domestic law the government procurement obligations in the UK-Australia FTA and UK-New Zealand FTA (together referred to as "the Agreements"); and
to make changes to domestic law that apply generally and not only in relation to the operation of the UK-Australia FTA.