No versions valid at: 01/11/1998
Point in time view as at 01/11/1998. This version of this provision is not valid for this point in time.
Government of Wales Act 1998, Section 65 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Valid from 01/12/1998
(1)The subordinate legislation procedures must include provision for securing that an appraisal (referred to in this Act as a regulatory appraisal) as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with any proposed Assembly general subordinate legislation is carried out before a draft of the statutory instrument containing the subordinate legislation is laid before the Assembly.
(2)But the subordinate legislation procedures may provide that a regulatory appraisal need not be carried out in relation to any proposed Assembly general subordinate legislation if in the particular circumstances it is inappropriate or not reasonably practicable for one to be carried out.
(3)The subordinate legislation procedures must also include provision for securing that, if a regulatory appraisal indicates that the costs of complying with any proposed Assembly general subordinate legislation are likely to be significant—
(a)appropriate consultation (including consultation with representatives of business) is carried out, and
(b)the regulatory appraisal is published,
before a draft of the statutory instrument containing the subordinate legislation is laid before the Assembly.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 65 excluded by Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), ss. 161, 162, Sch. 11 para. 25(2)(a), the amending provision coming into force immediately after "the 2007 election" (held on 3.5.2007) subject to s. 161(4)(5) of the amending Act, which provides for certain provisions to come into force for specified purposes immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(1)(4)(5) of the amending Act.
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