These Regulations ensure that rights, powers, liabilities, obligations, restrictions, remedies and procedures (“rights etc”) derived from the 2007 Lugano Convention (“the Convention”) continue to have effect after the end of 2023 in certain circumstances, despite the repeal of section 4 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”) by section 2 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”).