{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-163",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-163.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "section/163",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "163",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations: control by National Assembly for Wales",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2), a statutory instrument containing—\n(a) regulations made under this Act by the Welsh Ministers, or\n(b) an order under section 167(2) (transitional provision etc.) made by the Welsh Ministers,\nis subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a statutory instrument to which subsection (3) applies.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may not make a statutory instrument containing (whether alone or with other provision)—\n(a) the first regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under section 120 (additional responsibilities of responsible officers), ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nunless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 163(3)(b) and word repealed (3.4.2017) by Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 2), s. 188(1), Sch. 3 para. 58(d); S.I. 2017/309, art. 2(j) (with arts. 3, 4, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/163",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}