{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/4",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Review committee",
  "text": "(1) The OEGW must establish a committee (“the review committee”) to conduct reviews requested under section 20(1).\n(2) The OEGW may include as members of the review committee any of the OEGW’s members or any members of staff.\n(3) The OEGW must also‍ appoint to the review committee 1 or more persons who are not members of the OEGW or members of its staff (“co-opted members”).\n(4) The OEGW may not appoint a person as a co-opted member unless the person’s name is included in a list maintained and published by the‍ OEGW of persons who may be appointed as co-opted members.\n(5) The‍ OEGW may not include persons in the list unless‍ it considers that they have experience of, and capability in, one or more of—\n(a) environmental law and policy;\n(b) environmental science;\n(c) investigatory and enforcement proceedings.\n(6) Rules made under paragraph 14(3) or (as the case may be) a determination made under paragraph 14(4) must provide—\n(a) for the procedure by which the review committee is to appoint one of its members as its chairperson,\n(b) that co-opted members are entitled to vote at meetings of the review committee, and\n(c) that a member of the review committee may not participate or vote in the committee if it is conducting a review of a compliance notice with which the member was involved.\n(7) The OEGW may pay such remuneration, expenses and allowances as it may determine to co-opted members.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 10 in force at 27.4.2028 (conditional on an earlier day not being appointed by Welsh Ministers), see s. 46(4)(5)(6)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/4",
      "affecting_title": "Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/4",
      "affecting_title": "Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/4/schedule/1/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:38.736045+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."
}