{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/10",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-ombudsman-wales-act-2005",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The preceding provisions of this Act come into force in accordance with provision made by the Welsh Ministers by order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted by Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), s. 160(1), Sch. 10 para. 81 (with Sch. 11 para. 22), the amending provision coming into force immediately after \"the 2007 election\" (held on 3.5.2007) subject to s. 161(4)(5) of the amending Act, which provides for certain provisions to come into force for specified purposes immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(1)(4)(5) of the amending Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 40 power partly exercised: different dates appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2005/2800}, arts. 3, 4(1)(2), 5(1)(3), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4(3), 5(2), 7, Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/10/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:22.218266+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."
}