The Digital Government (Welsh Bodies) Regulations 2024

Made: 17 July 2024

Coming into force: 1 August 2024

A draft of these Regulations was laid before Senedd Cymru under section 62(6) of the Act[^f00002], and has been approved by a resolution of Senedd Cymru.

Title and coming into force

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Digital Government (Welsh Bodies) Regulations 2024.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 1 August 2024.

Amendment to Part 2 (Welsh bodies) of Schedule 8 to the Digital Economy Act 2017

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In paragraph 49 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 to the Digital Economy Act 2017, for “The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales”, substitute “The Commission for Tertiary Education and Research”.

Signed

Lynne Neagle — Cabinet Secretary for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers — 17 July 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 (“the Act”) allows specified persons listed in the Schedules to the Act to share information for specific purposes. Section 56(1) of the Act allows a specified person to share information with certain other persons for the purposes of preventing fraud against public authorities. Part 2 of Schedule 8 to the Digital Economy Act 2017 contains a list of Welsh bodies specified for the purposes of section 56(1). These Regulations remove the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales from that list and replace it with the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2017 c. 30. See section 63(1) and (3) for the definition of “appropriate national authority”.

[^f00002]: The reference in section 62(6) of the Act to the National Assembly for Wales now has effect as a reference to Senedd Cymru by virtue of section 150A(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32).