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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-act-2017/section-97",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-act-2017/section-97.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2017/2",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health (Wales) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-act-2017",
  "path": "section/97",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97",
  "heading": "Enforcement action by local authorities",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may—\n(a) bring prosecutions in respect of offences in its area under section 95;\n(b) investigate complaints in respect of alleged offences in its area under section 95;\n(c) take any other steps with a view to reducing the incidence of offences under section 95 in its area.\n(2) A local authority must—\n(a) consider, at least once in every period of twelve months, the extent to which it is appropriate for the authority to carry out in its area a programme of enforcement action in relation to section 95, and\n(b) to the extent that it considers it appropriate to do so, carry out such a programme.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a programme of enforcement action in relation to section 95 is a programme involving the taking of all or any of the steps referred to in subsection (1).\n(4) For the purpose of the exercise of its functions under subsection (2), a local authority must carry out such consultation as it considers appropriate with the chief officer of police for a police area any part of which falls within the area of the local authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 97 in force at 1.2.2018 by S.I. 2018/1, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2017/2/section/97",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:32:28.037353+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."
}