{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1989",
  "legislation_title": "The Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of these Regulations is the Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2015.\n(2) (a) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016 except sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 19(1);\n(b) sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 19(1) comes into force on 6 April 2018.\n(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;\n“area plan” (“cynllun ardal”) means the plan which a relevant body is required to prepare in accordance with section 14A(2) of the Act;\n“the Citizen Voice Body” (“Corff Llais y Dinesydd”) means the Citizen Voice Body for Health and Social Care established under section 12(1) of the Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020;\n“family support functions” (“swyddogaethau cymorth i deuluoedd”) means the functions specified in regulation 15;\n“joint area plan” (“cynllun ardal ar y cyd”) means an area plan which has been prepared by a relevant body jointly with another relevant body in accordance with the powers in section 14A(4) or (5) of the Act;\n“older people” (“pobl hŷn”) means persons aged 65 or over;\n“partnership arrangements” (“trefniadau partneriaeth”) means the partnership arrangements which are required to be made by partnership bodies in accordance with regulations 2 to 8;\n“partnership bodies” (“cyrff partneriaeth”) are those bodies which are required by regulations 2 to 8 to enter into partnership arrangements;\n“regional partnership board areas” means each of the respective areas in which partnership bodies are required to enter into partnership arrangements under the direction of a regional partnership board;\n“regional partnership boards” (“byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol”) means the boards required to be established by partnership bodies in accordance with regulations 2 to 8;\n“specified functions” (“swyddogaethau penodedig”) means the functions specified in regulation 9.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(4) inserted (31.12.2024) by The Partnership Arrangements (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1238), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(4) inserted (1.4.2019) by The Partnership Arrangements and Population Assessments (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/760), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1989/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:10.275277+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."
}