Public Health (Wales) Act 2017

108 Requirement to carry out health impact assessments

(1) Regulations must make provision about the carrying out of health impact assessments by public bodies.

(2) A health impact assessment is an assessment of the likely effect, both in the short term and in the long term, of a proposed action or decision on the physical and mental health of the people of Wales or of some of the people of Wales.

(3) The regulations must specify—

(a) the circumstances in which a public body must carry out a health impact assessment;

(b) the way in which a health impact assessment is to be carried out.

(4) The regulations may require the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust to give assistance to another public body carrying out a health impact assessment.

(5) The regulations may make provision about how the assistance is to be given, including (among other things) about when it is to be given.

(6) The regulations may make provision which applies subject to exceptions specified in the regulations.

(7) Before making regulations under this section, the Welsh Ministers must—

(a) consider whether there are persons who appear to be representative of the interests of those likely to be affected by the regulations (“representative persons”), and

(b) carry out consultation with any representative persons whom the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate to consult.