{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/1795",
  "legislation_title": "The Representations Procedure (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1989 Act” (“Deddf 1989”) means the Children Act 1989;\n“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n“the 2005 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2005”) means the Representations Procedure (Children)(Wales) Regulations 2005;\n“advocate” (“eiriolwr”) means a person who provides assistance under arrangements made by a local authority pursuant to section 178(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;\n“former representations procedure” (“gweithdrefn sylwadau flaenorol”) means the representations procedure established under the provisions of the 2005 Regulations;\n“independent investigator” (“ymchwilydd annibynnol”) means the person, being neither a member nor officer of the local authority to which representations have been made, or the spouse or civil partner of such a person but does include a person with whom the local authority has entered into a contract for services in order to conduct an investigation;\n“independent person” (“person annibynnol”) means the person, being neither a member nor officer of the local authority to which representations have been made, or the spouse or civil partner of such a person, who takes part in the consideration of the representations and in any subsequent discussions, in accordance with section 174(6) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county council or county borough council in Wales;\n“representations” (“sylwadau”) means representations made under section 174 or 175 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 or paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 7 to the 1989 Act;\n“to consider representations” (“ystyried sylwadau”) means to consider representations under the procedure set out in these Regulations;\n“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day except Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/211), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 169(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/211), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 169(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/211), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 169(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.8.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3365 (W.262)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1795/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:37:56.744837+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."
}