# The Health Impact Assessment (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“health impact assessment” (“asesiad o’r effaith ar iechyd”) means an assessment of the likely effect, both in the short term and in the long term, of a proposed action or decision on the physical and mental health of the people of Wales or of some of the people of Wales;
“HIA” (“AEI”) means a health impact assessment;
“public body” (“corff cyhoeddus”) means a person listed in section 110(1) of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1215/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-2
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