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PowerU.K.
Valid from 05/05/2011
107Acts of the AssemblyU.K.
(1)The Assembly may make laws, to be known as Acts of the National Assembly for Wales or Deddfau Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru (referred to in this Act as “Acts of the Assembly”).
(2)Proposed Acts of the Assembly are to be known as Bills; and a Bill becomes an Act of the Assembly when it has been passed by the Assembly and has received Royal Assent.
(3)The validity of an Act of the Assembly is not affected by any invalidity in the Assembly proceedings leading to its enactment.
(4)Every Act of the Assembly is to be judicially noticed.
(5)This Part does not affect the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make laws for Wales.
Valid from 01/04/2018
F1108 Legislative competenceU.K.
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 108A substituted for s.108 (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 3(1), 71(3) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 2, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 2
109Legislative competence: supplementaryU.K.
(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend Schedule 7.
(2)An Order in Council under this section may make such modifications of—
(a)any enactment (including any enactment comprised in or made under this Act) or prerogative instrument, or
(b)any other instrument or document,
as Her Majesty considers appropriate in connection with the provision made by the Order in Council.
(3)An Order in Council under this section may make provision having retrospective effect.
(4)No recommendation is to be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order in Council under this section unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the Order in Council—
(a)has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament, and
(b)except where the Order in Council is the first of which a draft has been laid under paragraph (a), has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.
(5)The amendment of Schedule 7 by an Order in Council under this section does not affect—
(a)the validity of an Act of the Assembly passed before the amendment comes into force, or
(b)the previous or continuing operation of such an Act of the Assembly.
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