Section 49 – Requirement to obtain advice about proposals to make regulations
200.This section provides that before any draft affirmative regulations are laid before the National Assembly for Wales under section 48, the Welsh Ministers must request advice from the advisory body (see section 44) about the proposal to make the regulations and also take that advice into account.
201.Subsections (2) to (4) require that when the Welsh Ministers request advice from the advisory body, they must specify a reasonable time period in which to provide the advice. The advisory body must provide the advice within that time period and must set out the reasons for the advice.
202.Subsection (5) places a duty on the Welsh Ministers to publish any advice they receive from the advisory body as soon as reasonably practicable after they have received it.
203.Subsection (6) provides that if the draft affirmative regulations laid before the National Assembly under section 48(3) are different from what was recommended by the advisory body, the Welsh Ministers must lay before the National Assembly a statement explaining the reasons why the regulations are different.
204.Subsection (7) provides that the Welsh Ministers do not need to seek the advice of the advisory body before laying draft regulations which either establish a new body as the advisory body or designate a person as the advisory body.