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Valid from 19/11/2009
[F1Interpretation
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 6Z and cross-heading inserted (19.11.2009) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Exceptions to Matters) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3006), art. 2(11)
6Z In this Part “general restrictions in Part 2” means paragraphs 1 to 6 of Part 2.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 6Z and cross-heading inserted (19.11.2009) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Exceptions to Matters) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3006), art. 2(11)
7Part 2 does not prevent a provision of an Assembly Measure removing or modifying, or conferring power by subordinate legislation to remove or modify, any function of a Minister of the Crown if the Secretary of State consents to the provision.
Valid from 30/12/2007
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 7A and cross-heading inserted (30.12.2007) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 235, 245(2), Sch. 17 para. 4
7AU.K.Part 2 does not prevent a provision of an Assembly Measure making an alteration to the boundary of a police area in Wales if the Secretary of State consents to the provision.]
8Part 2 does not prevent a provision of an Assembly Measure modifying, or conferring power by subordinate legislation to modify, any enactment relating to the Comptroller and Auditor General if the Secretary of State consents to the provision.
9Part 2 does not prevent a provision of an Assembly Measure—
(a)restating the law (or restating it with such modifications as are not prevented by that Part), or
(b)repealing or revoking any spent enactment,
or conferring power by subordinate legislation to do so.
10Part 2 does not prevent an Assembly Measure making modifications of, or conferring power by subordinate legislation to make modifications of, an enactment for or in connection with any of the following purposes—
(a)making different provision about the document by which a power to make, confirm or approve subordinate legislation is to be exercised,
(b)making provision (or no provision) for the procedure, in relation to the Assembly, to which legislation made in the exercise of such a power (or the instrument or other document in which it is contained) is to be subject, and
(c)applying any enactment comprised in or made under an Assembly Measure relating to the documents by which such powers may be exercised.
Valid from 25/05/2007
[F3Data Protection Act 1998
Textual Amendments
F3Sch. 5 para. 11 and cross-heading inserted by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Conversion of Framework Powers) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/910), art. 4 (with art. 2), the amending provision coming into force 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 art. 2(1) of the amending Order and s. 161(5) of this Act
11U.K.Part 2 does not prevent an Assembly Measure making modifications of, or conferring power by subordinate legislation to make modifications of, section 31(6) of the Data Protection Act 1998 so that it applies to complaints under any Assembly Measure relating to matter 9.1 in Part 1.]
Textual Amendments
F3Sch. 5 para. 11 and cross-heading inserted by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Conversion of Framework Powers) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/910), art. 4 (with art. 2), the amending provision coming into force 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 art. 2(1) of the amending Order and s. 161(5) of this Act
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