{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006-consequential-modifications-and-transitional-provisions-order-2007/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006-consequential-modifications-and-transitional-provisions-order-2007/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1388",
  "legislation_title": "The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006-consequential-modifications-and-transitional-provisions-order-2007",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007.\n(2) A modification made by a provision of Schedule 1 to this Order specified in the first column of the following table (and Article 2 so far as it relates to that provision) shall come into force at the time specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table—\n(1)\nProvisions of Schedule 1\n(2)\nComing into force\nParagraph 98(1) and (4)\nThe day after the day on which this Order is made\nParagraph 17\nParagraph 89\nParagraph 90(a) and (b)\nParagraph 91(a)\nParagraph 92\nParagraph 93\nParagraph 94\nParagraph 99\nParagraph 100\nParagraph 122\nImmediately after the ordinary election under section 3 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 held in 2007\nAll other provisions\nImmediately after the end of the initial period\n(3) Subject to paragraph (2) this Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 2.5.2007, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “modification” see section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (“the Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c.38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the meaning of “the initial period” see section 161(5) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1388/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:52:45.961402+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."
}