Under this more purposive approach, the situation remained that, if Parliament were to pass a statute which was expressly intended to be contrary to Community law, the domestic courts would allow this statute to prevail, as parliamentary legislation was still seen to be the supreme source of law. However, nothing less than words such as: 'this Act is to apply over any contrary provision of EU law' would have sufficed. By following this approach, the courts believed that they were in effect adhering to the intention of Parliament.