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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, Section 5.
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(1)In this Act, any reference to a public body doing something “in accordance with the sustainable development principle” means that the body must act in a manner which seeks to ensure that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
(2)In order to act in that manner, a public body must take account of the following things—
(a)the importance of balancing short term needs with the need to safeguard the ability to meet long term needs, especially where things done to meet short term needs may have detrimental long term effect;
(b)the need to take an integrated approach, by considering how—
(i)the body's well-being objectives may impact upon each of the well-being goals;
(ii)the body's well-being objectives impact upon each other or upon other public bodies' objectives, in particular where steps taken by the body may contribute to meeting one objective but may be detrimental to meeting another;
(c)the importance of involving other persons with an interest in achieving the well-being goals and of ensuring those persons reflect the diversity of the population of—
(i)Wales (where the body exercises functions in relation to the whole of Wales), or
(ii)the part of Wales in relation to which the body exercises functions;
(d)how acting in collaboration with any other person (or how different parts of the body acting together) could assist the body to meet its well-being objectives, or assist another body to meet its objectives;
(e)how deploying resources to prevent problems occurring or getting worse may contribute to meeting the body's well-being objectives, or another body's objectives.
Commencement Information
I1S. 5 in force at 1.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/86, art. 3
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