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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006/section-154",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/32",
  "legislation_title": "Government of Wales Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006",
  "path": "section/154",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "154",
  "heading": "Interpretation of legislation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to—\n(a) any provision of an Assembly Measure, or proposed Assembly Measure, which could be read in such a way as to be outside the Senedd's legislative competence,\n(b) any provision of an Act of the Senedd, or a Bill for such an Act, which could be read in such a way as to be outside the Senedd's legislative competence, and\n(c) any provision of subordinate legislation made, or purporting to be made, under an Assembly Measure or Act of the Senedd which could be read in such a way as to be outside the powers under which it was, or purported to be, made.\n(2) The provision is to be read as narrowly as is required for it to be within competence or within the powers, if such a reading is possible, and is to have effect accordingly.\n(3) In subsection (1)(c) “made” includes confirmed or approved.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(19) (with Sch. 1 para. 2(11)-(14))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "This provision in force immediately after \"the 2007 election\" by s. 161(1) (subject to s. 161(4)(5))"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/154",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:12.769607+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."
}