# Government of Wales Act 2006, Section 80: Assimilated obligations

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) An assimilated obligation of the United Kingdom is also an obligation of the Welsh Ministers if and to the extent that the obligation could be implemented (or enabled to be implemented) or complied with by the exercise by the Welsh Ministers of any of their functions.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in the case of an assimilated obligation of the United Kingdom if—
(a) it is an obligation to achieve a result defined by reference to a quantity (whether expressed as an amount, proportion or ratio or otherwise), and
(b) the quantity relates to the United Kingdom (or to an area including the United Kingdom or to an area consisting of a part of the United Kingdom which includes the whole or part of Wales or of the Welsh zone).
(3) But if such an assimilated obligation could (to any extent) be implemented (or enabled to be implemented) or complied with by the exercise by the Welsh Ministers of any of their functions, a Minister of the Crown may by order provide for the achievement by the Welsh Ministers (in the exercise of their functions) of so much of the result to be achieved under the assimilated obligation as is specified in the order.
(4) The order may specify the time by which any part of the result to be achieved by the Welsh Ministers is to be achieved.
(5) No order is to be made by a Minister of the Crown under subsection (3) unless the Minister of the Crown has consulted the Welsh Ministers.
(6) A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (3) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(7) Where an order under subsection (3) is in force in relation to an assimilated obligation, to the extent that the assimilated obligation involves achieving what is specified in the order it is also an obligation of the Welsh Ministers (enforceable as if it were an obligation of the Welsh Ministers under subsection (1)).
(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8E) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8F) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8G) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8H) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8J) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8K) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8L) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(9) Subsection (1) applies to the First Minister and the Counsel General as to the Welsh Ministers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/80 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006/section-80
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