Title, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2015.
(2) (a) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016 except sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 19(1);
(b)sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 19(1) comes into force on 6 April 2018.
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
(4) In these Regulations—
“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;
“family support functions” (“swyddogaethau cymorth i deuluoedd”) means the functions specified in regulation 15;
“partnership arrangements” (“trefniadau partneriaeth”) means the partnership arrangements which are required to be made by partnership bodies in accordance with regulations 2 to 8;
“partnership bodies” (“cyrff partneriaeth”) are those bodies which are required by regulations 2 to 8 to enter into partnership arrangements;
“regional partnership boards” (“byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol”) means the boards required to be established by partnership bodies in accordance with regulations 2 to 8;
“specified functions” (“swyddogaethau penodedig”) means the functions specified in regulation 9.