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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-procedure-publication-and-repeals-wales-act-2025-commencement-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2025/article-3",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1160",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-procedure-publication-and-repeals-wales-act-2025-commencement-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2025",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Procedure for making Welsh subordinate legislation",
  "text": "(1) In this article “pre-commencement subordinate legislation” means subordinate legislation—\n(a) made before 1 January 2026, or\n(b) contained in a draft statutory instrument laid before Senedd Cymru before that date.\n(2) Sections 37C to 37H of and Schedules 1A to 1C to the 2019 Act do not apply to pre-commencement subordinate legislation.\n(3) Sections 4(1), 5 to 7 and 11A(4) of the 1946 Act continue to have effect in relation to pre-commencement subordinate legislation as they had effect immediately before 1 January 2026, despite paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the 2025 Act.\n(4) Section 40 of the 2019 Act continues to have effect in relation to pre-commencement subordinate legislation as it had effect immediately before 1 January 2026, despite paragraph 14 of Schedule 3 to the 2025 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 4(1) was amended by section 18 of and paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 6 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and section 11A was inserted by section 160 of and paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
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  },
  "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."
}