{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019/section-37P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019/section-37P.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2019/4",
  "legislation_title": "Legislation (Wales) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislation-wales-act-2019",
  "path": "section/37P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37P",
  "heading": "Numbering and classification of Welsh statutory instruments",
  "text": "(1) Welsh statutory instruments are to be—\n(a) allocated to the series of Welsh statutory instruments for the calendar year in which they are made;\n(b) numbered within that series—\n(i) consecutively (starting with number 1), and\n(ii) as nearly as may be in the order in which they are received.\n(2) Accordingly, as soon as practicable after receiving a certified copy of a Welsh statutory instrument, the King’s Printer for Wales must—\n(a) allocate and number the instrument in accordance with subsection (1), and\n(b) affirm the subject heading or headings assigned to the instrument by the responsible authority.\n(3) When assigning a number to a Welsh statutory instrument in accordance with subsection (2), the King’s Printer for Wales may assign a further, subsidiary, number to the instrument (within the series to which the instrument is allocated).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2B inserted (1.1.2026) by Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 3), ss. 3, 9(4); S.I. 2025/1160, art. 2(b) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/4/section/37P",
    "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."
}