SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Transitional provisions

Sustainable development scheme

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1

Any scheme under section 121(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) which is in force immediately before the commencement of the repeal of that provision by this Act has effect after that time (with appropriate modifications) as if made under section 79.

2

Sub-paragraph (1) does not give rise to any obligation under section 79(4) to publish the scheme.

3

Section 79(6) does not apply in relation to the financial year ending with 31st March 2007.

4

But if the Assembly constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 has not complied with the duty imposed by subsection (6) of section 121 of that Act in relation to that financial year before the commencement of the repeal of that subsection by this Act, that duty becomes a duty of the Welsh Ministers on the commencement of that repeal.

5

In relation to the financial year ending with 31st March 2008, the reference in section 79(6)(a) to the proposals set out in the sustainable development scheme includes those set out in a scheme under section 121(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.

6

Section 79(7) has effect as if 2008 were the year following that in which an ordinary general election is held.