{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2023/1",
  "legislation_title": "Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Public services outsourcing and workforce code",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of maintaining or improving the quality of public services or other functions outsourced by contracting authorities, the Welsh Ministers must prepare and publish a code of practice (the “public services outsourcing and workforce code”) about employment and pensions matters related to outsourcing services contracts.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may revise the code and must publish the revised code.\n(3) In preparing the code or any revision the Welsh Ministers must consult such other persons as they consider appropriate.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers must lay a copy of the code and any revision before the Senedd.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 21.3.2025 by S.I. 2025/338, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/1/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:52.654100+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."
}