Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas) Amendment (Trade with United Kingdom) Order 2020

I, Debbie Langford, as delegate of the Secretary of the Department for Agriculture, make the following order.

Dated 2 March 2020

Debbie Langford
Assistant Secretary
Residues and Food Branch
Exports Division

Department of Agriculture

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas) Order 2019

1  Name

  This instrument is the Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas) Amendment (Trade with United Kingdom) Order 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 23A of the Export Control Act 1982.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas) Order 2019

1  Section 6

Insert:

European Union, during the UK withdrawal transition period, includes the United Kingdom.

UK withdrawal transition period means the period (if any) when transitional arrangements agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union relating to trade are in force following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

2  At the end of subsection 129(3)

Add:

Note: See also section 130 of this instrument.

3  At the end of Chapter 7

Add:

Part 2—Transitional provisions relating to the Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas) Amendment (Trade with United Kingdom) Order 2020

130  Continued application of the Export Control (High Quality Beef Export to the European Union Tariff Rate Quotas) Order 2016

  The Export Control (High Quality Beef Export to the European Union Tariff Rate Quotas) Order 2016 (the continuing Order) continues to apply under subsection 129(3) of this instrument in relation to the quota year ending on 30 June 2020 as if:

 (a) the definition of EU in subsection 5(1) of the continuing Order included at the end “and, during the UK withdrawal transition period, includes the United Kingdom”; and

 (b) the following definition were inserted into subsection 5(1) of the continuing Order:

UK withdrawal transition period means the period (if any) when transitional arrangements agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union relating to trade are in force following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.