{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-amendment-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/708",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, Wales\nMade 17 June 2025\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 18 June 2025\nComing into force 19 June 2025\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140(1)(c) and (d), and (3)(c) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”).\nThe Welsh Ministers—\n(a) consider it appropriate to make these Regulations for the purpose of preventing the articles specified in them from causing pollution of the environment and harm to the health of animals;\n(b) have published a notice in the London Gazette and the Western Mail, in accordance with section 140(6)(b) of the 1990 Act, and have considered the representations made in accordance with that notice, as required by section 140(6)(c) of the 1990 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 43. Section 140(3)(c) was amended by S.I. 1999/1108. By virtue of article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), and section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), subject to certain exceptions that are not relevant to these Regulations, the functions of the Secretary of State under section 140 are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 140(6)(b) was amended by S.I. 2012/1923."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/708/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:28.043420+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."
}