Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
18 March 2024
SL(6)464 – The Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Procedure: Made Negative
These Regulations are part of a suite of new legislation which has the objective of improving standards and safety across the building industry. The Regulations seek to ensure that building control authorities and registered building control approvers take advice from registered professionals before undertaking certain functions. Professionals will need to demonstrate relevant competence through a registration system regulated by the Welsh Ministers, before making certain building control decisions.
Section 44 of the Building Safety Act 2022 inserts sections 46A (Building control authorities: restricted activities and functions) and 54B (Registered building control approvers: restricted activities and functions) into the 1994 Act. Section 46A provides that a building control authority must carry out a restricted activity, or exercise a restricted function, through or with the advice of a registered building inspector. Section 54B makes similar provision in relation to registered building control approvers.
These Regulations prescribe the activities and functions of building control authorities and of registered building control approvers, which are restricted under sections 46A and 54B of the Building Act 1984 (the “1994 Act”).
Regulation 3 prescribes the restricted activities and functions of a building control activity for the purposes of section 46A of the 1994 Act.
Regulation 4 prescribes the restricted activities and functions of a registered building control approver for the purposes of section 54B of the 1994 Act.
Parent Act: Building Act 1984
Date Made: 28 February 2024
Date Laid: 01 March 2024
Coming into force date: 06 April 2024
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
18 March 2024
SL(6)467 – The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Procedure: Made Negative
The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (“the 2006 Regulations”) provide for the making and recovery of charges for dental treatment and the supply of dental services.
These Regulations amend the 2006 Regulations by increasing the applicable charges payable for Band 1, Band 2, Band 3 and urgent courses of treatment.
Parent Act: National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006
Date Made: 06 March 2024
Date Laid: 08 March 2024
Coming into force date: 01 April 2024
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
18 March 2024
SL(6)469 – The Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Procedure: Made Negative
Where a person is in residential care, and in receipt of financial support from their local authority towards the cost of their care, they are required to contribute towards this cost from their weekly income.
However, under the Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (the Charging Regulations), a person must be able to retain an amount of their income to spend as they wish. This is known as the minimum income amount (MIA). Under the Charging Regulations, the MIA is currently £39.50 per week.
The level of the MIA is reviewed annually to take account of annual uplifts to UK state pensions and welfare benefit payments, which form the basis of care home residents’ weekly income. Taking these uplifts into account, these Regulations increase the MIA from 8 April 2024 from its current level of £39.50 per week to £43.90 a week. This will allow residents to retain a slightly higher amount of their income to spend as they wish.
Parent Act: Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014
Date Made: 07 March 2024
Date Laid: 11 March 2024
Coming into force date: 08 April 2024