Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 THE SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL

   1. Establishment and purpose

      1. 1. Social Partnership Council for Wales

      2. 2. Membership of the Social Partnership Council for Wales

      3. 3. Employer representatives

      4. 4. Worker representatives

      5. 5. Nomination of appointed members

      6. 6. Duration of appointments

   2. Operation and administration

      1. 7. Meetings, procedures and administrative support

      2. 8. Subgroups

      3. 9. Public procurement subgroup

      4. 10. Provision of information and advice to the SPC by public procurement subgroup

      5. 11. Meeting remotely

      6. 12. Expenses

      7. 13. Supplementary powers

   3. Interpretation

      1. 14. Interpretation of Part 1

3. PART 2 SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

   1. 15. Overview of Part and interpretation

   2. 16. Social partnership duty

   3. 17. Social partnership duty: Welsh Ministers

   4. 18. Social partnership reports

   5. 19. Social partnership reports: Welsh Ministers

   6. 20. Fair work

4. PART 3 SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

   1. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

      1. Key concepts

         1. 21. Public contracts

         2. 22. Contracting authorities

         3. 23. Public procurement

   2. CHAPTER 2 SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT DUTY

      1. The socially responsible procurement duty

         1. 24. Socially responsible procurement duty

         2. 25. Socially responsible procurement duty: major construction contracts

         3. 26. Socially responsible procurement duty: outsourcing services contracts

      2. Social public works clauses

         1. 27. Social public works clauses in major construction contracts

         2. 28. Social public works clauses in subcontracts

         3. 29. Social public works clauses: notifying the Welsh Ministers

         4. 30. Social public works clauses: Welsh Ministers’ response

         5. 31. Social public works clauses: Welsh Ministers’ contracts

      3. Social public workforce clauses and code of practice on outsourcing public services

         1. 32. Public services outsourcing and workforce code

         2. 33. Social public workforce clauses in outsourcing services contracts

         3. 34. Social public workforce clauses in subcontracts

         4. 35. Social public workforce clauses: notifying the Welsh Ministers

         5. 36. Social public workforce clauses: Welsh Ministers’ response

         6. 37. Social public workforce clauses: Welsh Ministers’ contracts

      4. Procurement strategies

         1. 38. Procurement strategy

   3. CHAPTER 3 REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY

      1. 39. Annual socially responsible procurement reports

      2. 40. Contracts register

      3. 41. Procurement investigations

      4. 42. Welsh Ministers’ annual report on public procurement

   4. CHAPTER 4 GENERAL

      1. 43. Guidance

      2. 44. Regulations

      3. 45. Interpretation of Part 3

5. PART 4 FINAL PROVISIONS

   1. 46. General interpretation

   2. 47. Minor amendment of the WFGA 2015

   3. 48. Coming into force

   4. 49. Short title

6. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      CONTRACTING AUTHORITIES

      1. 1. The Senedd Commission.

      2. 2. A person listed as a “public body” in section 6(1)...

      3. 3. The Welsh Language Commissioner.

      4. 4. The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.

      5. 5. The Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

      6. 6. The Commissioner for Older People in Wales.

      7. 7. Social Care Wales.

      8. 8. The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust.

      9. 9. Digital Health and Care Wales.

      10. 10. The Welsh Revenue Authority.

      11. 11. Transport for Wales.

      12. 12. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of...

      13. 13. His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales....

      14. 14. Meat Promotion Wales.

      15. 15. Qualifications Wales.

      16. 16. Health Education and Improvement Wales.

      17. 17. The Education Workforce Council.

      18. 18. The Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales.

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT OBJECTIVES

      1. 1. If the well-being goals are amended, a contracting authority must...

      2. 2. If, on a review under paragraph 1, a contracting authority...

      3. 3. A contracting authority may at any other time review and...

      4. 4. Where a contracting authority revises its socially responsible procurement objectives...