Category: UK Internal Market

Overview of the Act The purpose of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act is to preserve the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) internal market as powers previously exercised at European Union (EU) level return to the UK, providing continued certainty for people and businesses that they can work and trade freely across the whole of the UK. […]

Part 1: UK Market Access: Goods Introductory Section 1: Purpose of the Act This section sets out the purpose of Part 1 of the Act, which is to promote the continued functioning of the UK internal market for goods in the UK by establishing two new market access principles in UK law. These principles are […]

Part 2: UK Market Access: Services UK Market Access: Services Section 17: Services overview This section sets out the scope of the provisions on the regulation of services in this Part by making provision that limits the application and effect of authorisation requirements for mutual recognition in section 19, and regulatory requirements for non-discrimination in […]

Part 4: Independent Advice on and Monitoring of UK Internal Market General provision about functions under Part 4 Section 30: Functions of the CMA under Part 4: general provisions This section defines a regulatory provision for the purposes of the CMA’s UK internal market reporting, advisory, and monitoring functions, to be undertaken by the Office […]

Part 5: Northern Ireland Protocol Northern Ireland’s place in the UK internal market and customs territory Section 46: Northern Ireland’s place in the UK internal market and customs territory This section provides that an appropriate authority must have special regard to a number of matters when exercising functions related to the implementation of the Northern […]

Part 6: Financial Assistance Powers Financial Assistance Powers Section 50: Powers to provide financial assistance powers for economic development etc This section is a general power to provide financial assistance for a number of specified purposes. Those purposes are economic development, infrastructure, culture, sporting activities, domestic educational and training activities and exchanges, and international education […]

  Part 8: Final Provisions Final provisions Section 54: Protection of Act against modification This section inserts references to the UK Internal Market Act into the Scotland Act 1998, the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the Northern Ireland Act 1998, so that the Act is treated as a protected or entrenched enactment under each. […]