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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-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Publication etc. of Welsh legislation",
  "text": "(1) Sections 37N to 37R of the 2019 Act do not apply to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026.\n(2) In section 37S(2) of the 2019 Act, the reference to publication in accordance with section 37Q is to be read, in relation to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026, as a reference to publication under section 2(1) of the 1946 Act.\n(3) Sections 37U and 37W of the 2019 Act do not apply to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026 or an Act of Senedd Cymru that receives Royal Assent before 1 January 2026.\n(4) Sections 37X and 37Y(1) of the 2019 Act do not apply to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026.\n(5) Section 37Z of the 2019 Act does not apply to a Welsh subordinate instrument (within the meaning given by section 3(2) of the 2019 Act) made before 1 January 2026.\n(6) Section 37Z1 of the 2019 Act does not apply to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026.\n(7) Despite paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the 2025 Act, the following provisions continue to have effect in relation to a Welsh statutory instrument made before 1 January 2026 as they had effect immediately before 1 January 2026—\n(a) section 2 of the 1946 Act and regulations 3 and 4 of the Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947;\n(b) section 3(1) of the 1946 Act and regulations 9 and 10(2) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Amended by section 1(1)(a) of the Statutory Instruments (Production and Sale) Act 1996 (c. 54)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1948/1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Amended by section 1(1)(a) and (b) of the Statutory Instruments (Production and Sale) Act 1996."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1160/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:36.734258+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."
}