{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-social-services-explanations-regulations-2005/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-social-services-explanations-regulations-2005/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1510",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Social Services Explanations) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-social-services-explanations-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of these Regulations is the National Assembly for Wales (Social Services Explanations) Regulations 2005 and they shall come into force on 1 July 2005.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003;\n“the Assembly” (“y Cynulliad”) means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“employee” (“cyflogai”) in relation to a service provider, includes a member or trustee; and\n“service provider” (“darparydd gwasanaeth”) means a person other than a local authority who provides, has provided or has agreed to provide a Welsh local authority social service.\n(3) In these Regulations a reference to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in regulation 2 below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1510/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:09.904337+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."
}