PART 6HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
108Requirement to carry out health impact assessments
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Regulations must make provision about the carrying out of health impact assessments by public bodies.
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A health impact assessment is an assessment of the likely effect, both in the short term and in the long term, of a proposed action or decision on the physical and mental health of the people of Wales or of some of the people of Wales.
3
The regulations must specify—
a
the circumstances in which a public body must carry out a health impact assessment;
b
the way in which a health impact assessment is to be carried out.
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The regulations may require the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust to give assistance to another public body carrying out a health impact assessment.
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The regulations may make provision about how the assistance is to be given, including (among other things) about when it is to be given.
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The regulations may make provision which applies subject to exceptions specified in the regulations.
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Before making regulations under this section, the Welsh Ministers must—
a
consider whether there are persons who appear to be representative of the interests of those likely to be affected by the regulations (“representative persons”), and
b
carry out consultation with any representative persons whom the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate to consult.