{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-air-quality-and-soundscapes-wales-act-2024/section-18",
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  "legislation": "asc/2024/2",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-air-quality-and-soundscapes-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Welsh Ministers’ powers of direction",
  "text": "In section 85 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) (reserve powers of the Welsh Ministers), in subsection (3)—\n(a) omit the “or” after paragraph (c);\n(b) after paragraph (d) insert—\n“(e) that a local authority in Wales has failed to carry out a measure specified in an action plan by the date specified in the plan in relation to that measure, or\n(f) that an air quality standard or objective has not been achieved, within a designated area in Wales, by the date specified in the action plan for the area as the date by which the standard or objective is expected to be achieved,”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 30(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 31.7.2025 by S.I. 2025/937, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "asc/2024/2",
      "affecting_title": "Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Act 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/2/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:48.452476+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."
}