The Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2025

Miscellaneous provisions relating to social care services, social care workers and local authority social care functions

3.—(1) The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1 January 2026—

(a) section 14(2)(c) (duty to submit and publish annual return),

(b) section 15 (application for cancellation of service provider’s registration: information to be provided),

(c) sub-paragraphs (2) and (5) to (8) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1, and section 22 (social care: minor and consequential amendments) in so far as it relates to those sub-paragraphs,

(d) section 20 (direct payments in social care)—

(i) subsection (1);

(ii) subsection (2)(a);

(iii) subsection (2)(c) and (d), but only in so far as it commences paragraphs 1, 2 and 6 to 8 of Schedule A1 to the 2014 Act, and

(e) paragraph 5(3)(d) of Schedule 1.

(2) The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1 April 2026—

(a) section 14 in so far as not already in force,

(b) section 17 (information, inspection and investigations), except subsection (3),

(c) section 19 (fitness to practice cases: powers to extend interim orders),

(d) sub-paragraphs (9) to (13) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1, and section 22 in so far as it relates to those sub-paragraphs,

(e) section 20 in so far as not already in force, and

(f) paragraphs 3, 4(1) and (3), 5 and 6 of Schedule 1, and section 22 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, in so far as not already in force.