The Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 (Commencement) (Wales) Order 2002

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 758 (W.81) (C.18)

ENERGY CONSERVATION, WALES

The Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 (Commencement) (Wales) Order 2002

Made

19th March 2002

The National Assembly for Wales makes this Order in exercise of the power conferred upon it by section 4(3) of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000(1):

Name and application

1.  The name of this Order is the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 (Commencement) (Wales) Order 2002 and it applies to Wales only.

Coming into force

2.  Section 2 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 comes into force in Wales on the 1st April 2002.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(2).

John Marek

The Deputy Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

19th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings section 2 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 into force in Wales.

This obliges the National Assembly for Wales to prepare and publish, within 12 months of the commencement of section 2, a strategy setting out its policies for ensuring, by means including the taking of measures to ensure the efficient use of energy, that as far as reasonably practicable people in Wales do not live in fuel poverty.

(1)

2000 c. 31.

(2)

1998 c. 38.