{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-37.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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Social public workforce clauses: Welsh Ministers’ contracts",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must publish a statement if, in relation to an outsourcing services contract—\n(a) they do not intend to include social public workforce clauses in the contract (despite having considered whether to do so in accordance with section 26(1)(b));\n(b) social public workforce clauses are not included in the contract (despite having taken all reasonable steps in accordance with section 26(1)(c)(i));\n(c) there is no process in place for ensuring that obligations in social public workforce clauses are implemented (despite having taken all reasonable steps in accordance with section 26(1)(c)(ii));\n(d) there is no process in place for ensuring that obligations in social public workforce clauses are implemented where the contract is subcontracted (despite having taken all reasonable steps in accordance with section 34(2)).\n(2) A statement under subsection (1) must be made as soon as reasonably practicable and give the Welsh Ministers’ reasons.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 25.3.2026 by S.I. 2025/1353, art. 2(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/1/section/37",
    "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."
}