Sch 6B para 1 Introduction and Interpretation
(1) Part 2 of this Schedule establishes a new Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee of the Assembly. (2) Part 3 of this Schedule sets out, for the purposes of Article 13 of the Windsor Framework, the process by which members of the Assembly may seek to prevent the application of a replacement EU act under the Framework. (3) Part 4 of this Schedule makes provision relating to the position of the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee with respect to the proposed application of EU acts under the Windsor Framework. (4) To the extent that the standing orders of the Assembly are inconsistent with this Schedule, this Schedule (rather than the standing orders) is to have effect. (5) For the purposes of this Schedule, a motion that is tabled and then withdrawn is to be regarded, at times after its withdrawal, as not having been tabled. (6) In this Schedule— “ Article 13(3a) declaration ” means the unilateral declaration by His Majesty’s Government concerning the involvement of the institutions of the 1998 Agreement as annexed to the decision of the Joint Committee which lays down arrangements relating to the Windsor Framework; “ clerk to the Assembly ” has the same meaning as in Schedule 6A; “ Committee ” means the committee established by paragraph 2; “ Framework ” means the Windsor Framework; “ Joint Committee ” has the same meaning as in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018; “ new EU act ” means a new EU instrument which has been notified to the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 13(4) of the Windsor Framework; “ replacement EU act ” means an EU instrument which amends or replaces any of the EU instruments referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 5(1) of the Windsor Framework, the first indent of heading 1 of Annex 2 to the Framework or headings 7 to 47 of Annex 2 to the Framework; “ scrutiny period ” means the period of two months beginning with the day on which a replacement EU act is published; “ Windsor Framework ” has the same meaning as in the joint declaration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Union in the Joint Committee which reflects the arrangements in the decision of that Joint Committee laying down the arrangements relating to the Windsor Framework.