{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-46",
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  "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/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) means—\n(a) in relation to a public body other than a Local Health Board or NHS trust, the period of 12 months ending with 31 March;\n(b) in relation to a Local Health Board, an accounting year within the meaning given by the order made under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42) establishing the Board;\n(c) in relation to an NHS trust, an accounting year within the meaning given by the order made under section 18 of that Act establishing the trust;\n“the Senedd” (“y Senedd”) means Senedd Cymru;\n“SPC” (“CPG“) means the Social Partnership Council established by section 1;\n“trade union”(“undeb llafur”) has the meaning given by section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52) (and “recognised” (“cydnabyddedig”) in relation to a trade union has the meaning given by section 178(3) of that Act);\n“the WFGA 2015” (“DLlCD 2015”) means the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 46 in force at 29.7.2023 by S.I. 2023/794, art. 2(m)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/1/section/46",
    "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."
}