Plans to ditch EU legislation from UK law are among the bills to have received royal assent from the King this week. A total of eight new pieces of legislation have passed the final stage of the Parliamentary process and have now become law.
New laws are put forward as bills and are then debated in each House of Parliament - the Commons and the Lords. Once they have been approved by both Houses they receive Royal Assent. The bill then becomes law and is known as an Act.
Other new laws that have been granted royal assent this week include an act that will curb the trade of shark fins and another that allows changes to prisoner release dates.
