{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1215",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Impact Assessment (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Public Health, Wales\nMade 19 November 2025\nComing into force 6 April 2027\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 108(1), (3), (4) and (5), 109(4) and 110(2) of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, make the following Regulations.\nIn accordance with section 108(7) of that Act, the Welsh Ministers have—\n(a) considered whether there are persons who appear to be representative of the interests of those likely to be affected by these Regulations (“representative persons”), and\n(b) carried out consultation with the representative persons whom the Welsh Ministers considered it appropriate to consult.\nIn accordance with section 123(2)(c) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations was laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2017 anaw 2. See section 110(1) of that Act for the definition of “public body” and section 108(2) of that Act for the definition of “health impact assessment”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 124(1) of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 for the definition of “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The reference in section 123 of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 to the National Assembly for Wales now has effect as a reference to Senedd Cymru by virtue of section 150A(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). See also section 40 of the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 4) for provision about the procedure that applies to this instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1215/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:30.050946+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."
}