PART 8

SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS

Welsh Ministers’ directions

Power to disapply requirements
131
1
Regulations may provide for a power for the Welsh Ministers to direct that requirements imposed by, under or by virtue of this Act do not apply in a case specified in the direction.
2
The regulations—
a
must specify the requirements that may be dis-applied by direction;
b
must requir‍e the Welsh Ministers to, as soon as reasonably practicable after making a direction—
i
publish the direction, and
ii
lay a statement about the direction before Senedd Cymru explaining its effect and why it was made;
c
may authorise directions to apply in a particular case or cases generally.
S. 131 in force at 4.6.2024 for specified purposes, see s. 147(1)(b)
S. 131 in force at 15.12.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(i)