National Assembly for Wales

Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

12 September 2016

SL(5)007 – The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Procedure:  Negative

EU Regulation 609/2013 (the EU Regulation) regulates the compositional and labelling requirements of food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control. The EU Regulation has direct effect in Wales, meaning that the compositional and labelling requirements apply automatically in Wales without the need to enact domestic legislation.

The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (the Wales Regulations) provides for the enforcement of certain parts of the EU Regulation. The Wales Regulations do this by providing for improvement notices to be given to persons who fail to comply with the requirements of the EU Regulation. Failure to comply with an improvement notice would be a criminal offence.

Parent Act: Food Safety Act 1990; The European Communities Act 1972

Date Made: 12 July 2016
Date Laid: 12 July 2016        
Coming into force date: 2 August 2016

SL(5)010 – The National Curriculum (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Procedure:  Negative

These Regulations amend 4 sets of regulations relating primarily to the collection and reporting of information on assessment in the Foundation Phase.

Parent Act: Education Act 1996; Education 2002

Date Made: 5 August 2016

Date Laid: 10 August 2016        

Coming into force date: 1 September 2016

SL(5)011 – The National Curriculum (Desirable Outcomes, Educational Programmes and Baseline and End of Phase Assessment Arrangements for the Foundation Phase) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016

Procedure:  Negative

This Order amends the National Curriculum (Desirable Outcomes, Educational Programmes and Baseline and End of Phase Assessment Arrangements for the Foundation Phase) (Wales) Order 2015.

Under section 108(2) of the Education Act 2002 the Welsh Ministers may specify, by Order, the areas of learning for the foundation phase and in relation to each of those areas of learning such desirable  outcomes, programmes of study and assessment arrangements as they consider appropriate.

Parent Act: Education Act 2002

Date Made: 5 August 2016
Date Laid: 10 August 2016        
Coming into force date: 1 September 2016

SL(5)012 – The Water Quality and Supply (Fees) (Undertakers Wholly or Mainly in Wales) Order 2016

Procedure:  Negative

This Order provides for fees to be payable, and sets out how the amounts of such fees are to be determined, for the exercise of a function by an inspector appointed by the Welsh Ministers under section 86 of the Water Industry Act 1991. The functions are related to the following investigations and reporting requirements—

- checking water sampling and analysis arrangements;

- checking water supply management arrangements;

- investigating an event, incident, emergency or other matter arising from the quality or sufficiency of water;

- checking the handling and reporting of consumer complaints about water quality or sufficiency; and

- checking compliance with requirements to furnish information to, or to notify, the Welsh Ministers concerning these arrangements and matters.

Parent Act: Water Industry Act 1991

Date Made: 9 August 2016
Date Laid: 17 August 2016        
Coming into force date: 8 September 2016