Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

31 March 2014

CLA387 - The Tuberculosis (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2014

Procedure:  Negative

This Order amends the Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1379 (W. 122)) and the Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/692 (W. 104)). It enables the Welsh Ministers to approve veterinary surgeons to carry out certain diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (relevant tests) on bovine, and non-bovine, animals and to examine and mark such animals.  It provides for automatic requirements to apply to a keeper where a relevant test reveals a reactor or inconclusive reactor.

CLA390 - The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Assessment of Resources) and Social Care Charges (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014

Procedure: Negative

The Regulations relate to the financial assessment of individuals for charging for both residential and non-residential care and will:-

Residential Care

• increase the weekly sum of money that local authorities must enable a resident in care to retain to spend on personal items from £24.50 to £25.00 per week;
• increase the single capital limit (the value of property, savings and investments held to determine whether the resident or their local authority funds their residential care) from £23,750 to £24,000;

Non –residential Care

• make a technical amendment that introduces a partial disregard in financial assessments of the first £10 per week of a Guaranteed Income Payment made under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 to an ex-armed forces personnel’s spouse, civil partner or adult dependent;
• increase the maximum amount a local authority may determine to be a reasonable charge for the provision of a service or combination of services, and the maximum amount a local authority may determine to be a reasonable amount for a contribution or reimbursement for receiving a direct payment, from £50 per week to £55 per week.

CLA391 - The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Wales) Regulations 2014

Procedure: Negative

These Regulations revoke, replace and amend the corresponding Regulations from 2008. These Regulations specify the fuels which are currently authorised for use in a smoke control area (i.e. an area designated by a local authority as a smoke control area).

CLA392 - The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (Wales) Order 2014

Procedure: Negative

The Clean Air Act 1993 prohibits the emission of smoke in smoke control areas. However, the 1993 Act allows exemptions for specified classes of fireplaces. This Order specifies those exempted fireplaces (and revokes, replaces and amends the corresponding 2013 Order).