Legal background
The approach in the Act to preserving EU law is to ensure that all EU laws which are directly applicable in the UK and all laws which have been made in the UK in order to implement our obligations as a member of the EU are converted into domestic law on the day the UK leaves the EU, subject to some limited exceptions. The paragraphs below set out the different aspects of EU law which operate currently in the UK. The commentary on the provisions of the Act set out where changes to this will occur.