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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023-commencement-no-4-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1353",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023-commencement-no-4-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 25 March 2026",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 25 March 2026—\n(a) section 22(2) (contracting authorities);\n(b) section 24(1) to (7) (socially responsible procurement duty);\n(c) section 25(1) (socially responsible procurement duty: major construction contracts);\n(d) section 26(1) (socially responsible procurement duty: outsourcing services contracts);\n(e) section 28 (social public works clauses in subcontracts);\n(f) section 29 (social public works clauses: notifying the Welsh Ministers);\n(g) section 30 (social public works clauses: Welsh Ministers’ response);\n(h) section 31 (social public works clauses: Welsh Ministers’ contracts);\n(i) section 34 (social public workforce clauses in subcontracts);\n(j) section 35 (social public workforce clauses: notifying the Welsh Ministers);\n(k) section 36 (social public workforce clauses: Welsh Ministers’ response);\n(l) section 37 (social public workforce clauses: Welsh Ministers’ contracts);\n(m) section 38 (procurement strategy);\n(n) section 40 (contracts register), for all remaining purposes;\n(o) section 41 (procurement investigations);\n(p) Schedule 2 (socially responsible procurement objectives).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1353/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:14.283333+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."
}