{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2019/4",
  "legislation_title": "Legislation (Wales) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "References to enactments are to enactments as amended",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) an Act of Senedd Cymru or a Welsh subordinate instrument refers to an enactment (“A”), and\n(b) at any time (whether before, on or after the day on which the ... Act receives Royal Assent or the ... instrument is made) A is amended, extended or applied by an enactment (”B”).\n(2) The reference to A is a reference to A as amended, extended or applied by B.\n(3) Nothing in sections 22 to 24 limits the operation of this section.\n(4) In subsection (1), “enactment” includes an enactment which is, or is contained in, any of the following—\n(a) an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n(b) Northern Ireland legislation (within the meaning given by section 24(5) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30));\n(ba) a Measure of the Church Assembly or of the General Synod of the Church of England;\n(c) an instrument made under legislation mentioned in paragraph (a) , (b) or (ba).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 25(1)(b) omitted (6.5.2020) by virtue of Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(3)(a)(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(1)(b) omitted (6.5.2020) by virtue of Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(3)(b)(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 25(4)(ba) inserted (10.9.2025) by Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 3), s. 9(2)(e), Sch. 2 para. 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(4)(c) substituted (10.9.2025) by Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 3), s. 9(2)(e), Sch. 2 para. 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force for specified purposes at 11.9.2019, see s. 44(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 1.1.2020 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2019/1333, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/4/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:03.284429+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."
}