Act of the National Assembly for Wales | |
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Long title | An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to promote the accessibility of Welsh law; to provide for the interpretation and operation of Welsh legislation; and for connected purposes. |
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Citation | 2019 anaw 4 |
Introduced by | Jeremy Miles AM, Counsel General |
Territorial extent | Wales |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 29 April 2015 |
Commencement | 10 September 2019 (parts 1,3,4), 1 January 2020 (part 2) |
Other legislation | |
Amended by | The Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Regulations 2020 |
Relates to | The Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019 |
Status: Current legislation | |
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Text of statute as originally enacted | |
Revised text of statute as amended |
The Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 4) (Welsh : Deddf Deddfwriaeth (Cymru) 2019) is an Act of the National Assembly for Wales, which is designed to provide guidance on how to draft and interpret primary and secondary legislation of the Assembly.
In July 2013, the Law Commission announced that it was including a section on the "form and accessibility of the law applicable in Wales" as an advisory project in its twelfth programme of law reform. [1] In 2016, the Law Commission published its final report on the form and accessibility of the law in Wales, recommending [2]
Lord Lloyd-Jones, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, wrote a document supporting codification. [3]
The draft bill was introduced to the assembly in April 2018. [4]
In April 2019, the Solicitor General of England and Wales, Robert Buckland, sent the Counsel General for Wales explaining the UK Government's position that certain provisions of the bill were outside of the legislative competence of the Welsh Assembly: mainly relating to Welsh statutory instruments made under acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [5]
In June 2019, the Counsel General sent the Solicitor General, Lucy Fraser a letter explaining the Welsh Government's position that the lack of an interpretation act with provisions for bilinngual statutory instruments, made by the Welsh Government under monolingual acts of the made passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom was problematic. [6]
In August 2019, the Solicitor General, Michael Ellis, sent the Counsel General a letter reiterating the UK Government's position but explaining that the UK Government would not refer the bill to the Supreme Court. [7] [8]
The legislation has provisions: [9]
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 | |
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Act of Senedd Cymru | |
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Long title | An Act of Senedd Cymru to promote the accessibility of Welsh law by making provision about the procedure for making and publishing Welsh legislation, and by repealing certain enactments that are no longer of practical utility or benefit, and connected purposes. |
Citation | 2025 asc 3 |
Introduced by | Julie James MS, Counsel General |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 10 July 2025 |
Status: Current legislation | |
History of passage through the Senedd | |
Text of the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. |
The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 (Welsh : Deddf Deddfwriaeth (Gweithdrefn, Cyhoeddi a Diddymiadau) (Cymru) 2025) made amendments to:
The first consolidation act passed as part of the programme to consolidate legislation was the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023. [13]