{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-149A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-149A.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/149A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "149A",
  "heading": "Reviews of studies and research",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may review—\n(a) studies and research undertaken by others in relation to the exercise of the social services functions of local authorities in Wales,\n(b) the methods used in such studies and research, and\n(c) the validity of conclusions drawn from such studies and research.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must—\n(a) prepare and publish a report of a review conducted under subsection (1), and\n(b) lay a copy of the report before the National Assembly for Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 149A-149D and cross-heading inserted (29.4.2019) by Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 2), ss. 57(1), 188(1); S.I. 2019/864, art. 2(3)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/4/section/149A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:25.857129+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."
}