# Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026, Paragraph 1: Power to make staff transfer schemes

Extent: E+W

(1) The Welsh Ministers may make one or more schemes providing for members of staff of the Welsh Government to become members of staff of the OEGW (a “staff transfer scheme”).
(2) A staff transfer scheme may (among other things)—
(a) provide for the transfer of rights and liabilities;
(b) provide for anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Welsh Government to be treated as having been done by or in relation to the OEGW;
(c) make any other provision that is the same as or similar to a provision made by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) in a case where those Regulations do not apply;
(d) provide for the continuation and validity of anything done by or in relation to the Welsh Government before the transfer;
(e) provide for references to the Welsh Government in an instrument or other document to be treated as references to the OEGW;
(f) make consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/4/schedule/3/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/schedule-3/paragraph-1
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