{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005-transitional-provisions-and-consequential-amendments-order-2006/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005-transitional-provisions-and-consequential-amendments-order-2006/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005-transitional-provisions-and-consequential-amendments-order-2006",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of this Order is the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Order 2006 and it shall come into force on 1 April 2006.\n(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.\n(3) In this Order—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005;\n“co-opted member” (“aelod cyfetholedig”) means, in relation to a relevant authority, a person who is not a member of the authority but who—\n(a)is a member of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or\n(b)is a member of, and represents the authority on, any joint committee or joint sub-committee of the authority,\nand who is entitled to vote on any question which falls to be decided at any meeting of that committee or sub-committee; and\n“relevant authority” (“awdurdod perthnasol”) means a county council, a county borough council, a National Park authority established under section 63 of the Environment Act 1995 or a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/362/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:30.467791+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."
}