{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/section-23.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": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Improvement reports: content",
  "text": "(1) An improvement report must—\n(a) set out the details of the alleged failure to—\n(i) comply with environmental law,\n(ii) implement or apply environmental law effectively, or\n(iii) make effective environmental law;\n(b) explain the OEGW’s reasons for considering that there has been such a failure;\n(c) set out the impact or possible impact of the failure;\n(d) recommend actions for the Welsh Ministers to take in response to the failure;\n(e) propose timescales for taking those actions.\n(2) The actions recommended for the Welsh Ministers under subsection (1)(d) may not include—\n(a) revoking or varying an administrative decision taken by a public authority in relation to a particular person or case, or\n(b) requiring another public authority to revoke or vary such a decision.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 27.4.2028 (conditional on an earlier day not being appointed by Welsh Ministers), see s. 46(4)(5)(6)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/section/23",
    "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."
}