{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-social-services-explanations-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-social-services-explanations-regulations-2005/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power to require explanations",
  "text": "(1) The Assembly may in accordance with paragraph (2) require any person prescribed in paragraph (3) to provide to it, or to a person authorised by it, an explanation of any of the following—\n(a) any documents, records or items inspected, copied or produced under sections 98 to 100 of the Act;\n(b) any information provided under those sections;\n(c) any matters which are the subject of the exercise of any functions of the Assembly under Chapter 6 of Part 2 of the Act,\nin cases where the Assembly considers the explanation necessary or expedient for the purposes of that Chapter.\n(2) A requirement under paragraph (1) must be given in a written notice which must also—\n(a) set out the why the explanation is required;\n(b) specify whether the explanation is to be provided in person or in writing (save that where the person required to provide the explanation is a body of persons corporate or unincorporate, the explanation must be required in writing); and\n(c) where the explanation is to be provided in person, specify, and give reasonable notice of, the time and place at which it is to be provided.\n(3) The prescribed persons are—\n(a) a local authority;\n(b) a member or former member of a local authority;\n(c) an elected mayor or former elected mayor of a local authority, within the meaning of section 39(1) of the Local Government Act 2000;\n(d) an officer or former officer of a local authority;\n(e) a service provider;\n(f) an employee or former employee of a service provider or any other person who is assisting or has assisted that provider in the provision of a Welsh local authority social service;\n(g) a person (other than one listed in any of sub-paragraphs (b) to (f)) who is assisting or has assisted a local authority in the provision of a Welsh local authority social service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1510/regulation/2",
    "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."
}