The European Communities Act 1972, also known as the ECA 1972, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made legal provision for the accession of the United Kingdom as a member state t
The Act was the most significant constitutional piece of legislation to be passed by the Heath government of 1970–1974[citation needed]
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Geoffrey Rippon was responsible for drafting the 1972 legislation that took the UK into the then European Communities (which would later become the European Union)
Edward Heath
Parliamentary sovereignty is a longstanding concept central to the functioning of the constitution of the United Kingdom, but which is also not fully defined and has long been debated. Since the subor
European Communities Act 1972 (UK)
…bringing to an end decades of political debate and discussions about the constitutional significance of the Act and its effect on the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty. When the European Communities (EC) came into being in 1958, the UK chose to remain aloof and instead join the alternative bloc, EFTA. Almost immediately…
Under section 38 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 "It is recognised that the Parliament of the United Kingdom is sovereign".