European Communities (Amendment) Act 2002 Explained

Short Title:	The European Communities (Amendment) Act 2002^[1]
Type:	Act
Long Title:	An Act to make provision consequential on the Treaty signed at Nice on 26th February 2001 amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related Acts.
Year:	2002
Citation:	c 3
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Territorial Extent:	United Kingdom (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) Indirectly also affects (not part of the territorial extent): The Isle of Man [The Bailiwick of] Jersey The Bailiwick of Guernsey Gibraltar
Royal Assent:	26 February 2002
Amends:	European Communities Act 1972
Original Text:	http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/3/introduction
Status:	Repealed

The European Communities (Amendment) Act 2002 (c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which saw the fourth major amendment to the European Communities Act 1972 to include the provisions that were agreed upon in the Nice Treaty which was signed on 26 February 2001 to be incorporated into the domestic law of the United Kingdom. It was given Royal assent on 26 February 2002.

The Act was repealed by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 on 31 January 2020.

See also

• Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Communities and the European Union
• European Union

References

• "European Communities (Amendment) Act 2002". Current Law Statutes 2002. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 2002. Volume 1. Chapter 3.
• "European Communities (Amendment) Act 2002". Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales. Fourth Edition. 2010 Reissue. LexisNexis. Volume 10(3). Page 528 et seq.
• Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins. British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials. Cambridge University Press. Sixth Edition. 2007. Page 316.
• Hilaire Barnett. Constitutional and Administrative Law. Fourth Edition. Cavendish Publishing Limited. 2002. Page 240.
• A W Bradley and K D Ewing. Constitutional and Administrative Law. Fourteenth Edition. Pearson Longman. 2007. Page 333.
• David Pollard, Neil Parpworth and David Hughes. Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2007. Page 337.
• C F Forsyth and H W R Wade. Administrative Law. Eleventh Edition. Oxford University Press. 2014. Page 158.
• David Edward and Robert Lane. Edward and Lane on European Union Law. Edward Elgar. 2013. Page 67.
• Philip Giddings and Gavin Drewry. Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pages 56, 118 and 258.

Notes and References

1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 4 of this Act.