European Union Referendum Act 2015

7Duty to publish information about membership of the European Union etc

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(1)The Secretary of State must publish a report which contains (alone or with other material)—

(a)information about rights, and obligations, that arise under European Union law as a result of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union, and

(b)examples of countries that do not have membership of the European Union but do have other arrangements with the European Union (describing, in the case of each country given as an example, those arrangements).

(2)The report must be published before the beginning of the final 10 week period.

(3)In this section “the final 10 week period” means the period of 10 weeks ending with the date of the referendum.

(4)A copy of the report published under this section must be laid before Parliament by the Secretary of State.