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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1215",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Impact Assessment (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nPart 6 of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (“the Act”) makes provision about the carrying out of health impact assessments (HIAs) by public bodies listed in section 110(1) of the Act. These Regulations are made using powers under sections 108, 109 and 110 of the Act.\nA HIA is an assessment of the likely effect, both in the short and long term, of a proposed action or decision on the physical and mental health of all or some of the people of Wales.\nThese Regulations make various provisions about the carrying out of HIAs by public bodies. The Regulations also add additional persons to the list of public bodies in section 110(1) of the Act.\nRegulation 3 provides that a HIA must be carried out by a public body when it proposes to make a decision of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions.\nRegulation 4 sets out the matters that must be identified and assessed by a public body in the course of carrying out an HIA, and factors to which the public body must have regard in doing so.\nRegulation 5 provides that the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust must produce guidance to assist public bodies with carrying out a HIA.\nRegulation 6 makes provision about the publication of HIAs.\nRegulation 7 adds additional public bodies to the list in section 110(1) of the Act.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ and is published on www.gov.wales.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1215/note",
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  "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."
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