{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-wales-regulations-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-wales-regulations-2010/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/1433",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Standards (Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES\nMade 16 May 2010\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 19 May 2010\nComing into force 11 June 2010\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales by its designation for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the assessment and management of ambient air quality and compliance with air quality limit values, target values and objectives and now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers , and in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act , make the following Regulations.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for references to Annexes I to VI and VIII to X and Section B of Annex XV to Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe and Section II of Annex II and Annexes III to V to Directive 2004/107/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air to be construed as references to those Annexes and those Sections as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "By virtue of section 162 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to that Act, the powers conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales by this designation are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/1433/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:41.556554+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}