LONDON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- New measures were proposed Tuesday by the British parliament's constitution committee to prevent Prime Minister Theresa May's government from fast-tracking post Brexit laws in Britain.
In the 43 years since Britain joined the European Union, thousands of laws and regulations have been introduced by Brussels.
The British government plans to introduce a "great repeal bill" to absorb all of the EU laws into British law.
But the committee, made up of peers from the House of Lords, want new measures to safeguard the rights of the Houses of Parliament to make sure May's government does not use delegated powers in great repeal bill as a way of changing the laws without proper parliamentary scrutiny.
The current Article 50 Brexit bill, giving powers to May to start Britain's EU exit process, has been fast-tracked through parliament and is expected to be signed next week by Queen Elizabeth.
The committee says parliament should seek to limit the scope of the delegated powers contained in the repeal bill to ensure the government uses powers it acquires appropriately.
Committee chairman Lord Monkton said: "The Great Repeal Bill is likely to be an extremely complicated piece of legislation. It will also provide for the amendment of literally thousands of pieces of EU law that will need to be adapted to make sense in a post-Brexit UK. No one should underestimate the challenge of that process."
"The intention should be to convert the existing body of EU law into UK law with as few changes as possible. That should be done only through primary legislation that is subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny," he continued.
"We feel these measures should ensure that the cry of the Brexit campaign in the referendum, that the UK Parliament should 'take back control', isn't lost before the UK has even left the EU," he stated.
