The Service of Documents and Taking of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Matters (Revocation and Saving Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

The Service of Documents and Taking of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Matters (Revocation and Saving Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Proposed Negative
Published 29 October 2018
Committee sifting period ends: 19 November 2018

This Statutory Instrument revokes Regulation 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents), and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000 (the Service Regulation); and Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters (the Evidence Regulation), once they have become retained EU law. It also provides for the cessation of the rights, etc. deriving from the Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil and commercial matters (the Denmark Service Agreement) and revokes two Scottish Statutory Instruments relevant to the Service Regulation and two EU Council decisions relevant to the Denmark Service Agreement. It also makes provision for savings and transitional matters.

The Explanatory Memorandum to the Regulations states that this instrument applies to private international law which is a transferred matter for Northern Ireland under section 4(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

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