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<p>The Government do not recognise the concept of a co-legislator. The legislatures
for Northern Ireland are the Assembly and the Houses of Parliament. The Ireland/Northern
Ireland Protocol gives effect to a limited group of technical EU legal rules considered
necessary to facilitate trade and the movement of agrifoods.</p><p> </p><p>The Protocol
provides for forums in which forthcoming legislation can be discussed, including whether
new areas of law should be applied. New pieces of EU legislation that amend or replace
acts referred to in the Protocol are notified to the Joint Consultative Working Group.
New EU legislation that is within the scope of the Protocol but does not amend or
replace acts listed in the Annexes of the Protocol, does not apply unless there is
a Joint Committee decision to add the new act.</p><p> </p>
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