National Assembly for Wales

Progress of current Legislative Competence Orders (LCOs) and Measures

The tables below summarise the progress of current LCOs and Measures. Details of LCOs and Measures which have completed their progress, or which will not progress further, are available on our Archive page. This information is compiled by the Members' Research Service, and is continually updated. More detailed information about LCOs and Measures, and about the legislative process, is available on the Legislation web pages.

LCOs | Measures

LCOs

LCO

Progress

Domestic fire safety

National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Housing) (Fire Safety) Order 2010 (formerly known as the National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (No.7) Order 2008)

Proposed by Ann Jones AM

The proposed Legislative Competence Order would confer further legislative competence on the National Assembly for Wales, in the field of Housing (field 11, Part 1, Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act), so that an Assembly Measure may be brought forward requiring all new build housing in Wales to be fitted with a fire sprinkler system. The objective of the proposed LCO (and the subsequent Measure) is to reduce the incidence of death and injury from fires in new build housing in Wales.

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Highways and transport, relating to networks of routes for pedestrians and cyclists

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Highways and Transport) Order 2009

Proposed by the Enterprise and Learning Committee

The proposed Legislative Competence Order would extend the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales to include the development and maintenance of networks of routes for pedestrians and cyclists.

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Culture

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Culture and other Fields) Order 2009

Proposed by the Welsh Assembly Government

The proposed Order, if approved, would give the Assembly the power, through a Measure, to implement the ‘One Wales’ commitment to place a statutory obligation on local authorities to promote culture and encourage partnership to deliver high quality cultural experiences for their communities.

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Local government, relating to town and community councils

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Local Government) Order 2009

Proposed by the Welsh Assembly Government

The proposed LCO would extend the field of competence in respect of local government to include community councils (which includes their constitution, structure, procedures, capability and service delivery), community reviews, the relations between tiers of local government, councillor allowances and the recruitment and retention of councillors.

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School governance

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Education) Order 2010

Proposed by the Welsh Assembly Government

The proposed LCO would extend the field of legislative competence in relation to education and training to include the conduct and governance of maintained schools, securing collaboration between persons or bodies with functions relating to maintained schools and conferring authority on governing bodies (or persons or bodies with functions in relation to maintained schools) to establish a body or other education body that can provide services to schools and Further Education Institutions or which would be able to exercise functions on behalf of local education authorities.

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Housing and local government, relating to sustainable homes

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Housing and Local Government) Order 2010

Proposed by the Welsh Government

The proposed LCO would extend the field of legislative competence in relation to housing and local government. The competence within the LCO would cover the regulation of social landlords, disposals by social landlords, social housing tenancies, homelessness, housing allocations, housing-related support, the provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites, empty homes and Council Tax for second homes

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Transport, relating to learner transport safety and concessionary fares

The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Transport) (Order) 2010

Proposed by the Welsh Government

The proposed Legislative Competence Order seeks to confer additional powers on the National Assembly over learner transport safety and concessionary fares.

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Provision of bus and coach services

Proposed by Huw Lewis AM

The proposed Legislative Competence Order would confer further legislative competence on the National Assembly for Wales, in the field of Highways and Transport (field 10, Part 1, Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act) so that an Assembly Measure may be brought forward regarding the provision of bus and coach services. The proposed LCO could also provide the Assembly with the necessary powers to improve school transport safety including the use of seatbelts on school buses and assessments of school buses and bus drivers.

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Displaying of national flags and motifs on vehicle registration plates

Proposed by Janet Ryder AM

The proposed Legislative Competence Order would amend the current legislation in relation to vehicle registration plates with regards to displaying National flags and motifs.

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Hard surfaces

Proposed by Joyce Watson AM

The proposed Order would allow the National Assembly for Wales to pass a Measure to ensure that when a hard surface is constructed and/or replaced then it is made of porous material or that provision is made to direct run-off from the hard surface to a permeable or porous area of surface.

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Measures

Measure

Progress

Playing fields (community involvement in disposal decisions)

Proposed Playing Fields (Community Involvement in Disposal Decisions) Measure

Proposed by Dai Lloyd AM

The primary purpose of the proposed Measure is to place a duty on local authorities to consider the impact that selling off local authority owned playing fields would have on local communities, in terms of health, well-being and social inclusion, before proceeding with the sale / disposal. As such, the proposed Measure will impose a duty on local authorities (including National Parks and community councils) to prepare and consult on impact statements when they propose to dispose of playing fields.

Recycling

Proposed Shipment of Waste for Recovery (Community Involvement in Arrangements) (Wales) Measure

Proposed by Nerys Evans AM

The purpose of the proposed Measure is to engender greater transparency and openness in the way that Welsh local authorities deal with recyclate. It would require local authorities to make publicly available information about the proportion of the recyclate collected from households that is processed within the local authority's boundaries, in Wales, elsewhere in the UK, and overseas. It is intended that, as a result of this information, residents will encourage local authorities to use recycling facilities that are closer to the source of the recyclate, than those that are further away.

Remuneration

Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Remuneration) Measure

Proposed by the National Assembly for Wales Commission

The purpose of the proposed Measure would be is to establish an independent National Assembly for Wales Remuneration Board ("the Board”), and to transfer to the Board the functions of making determinations in relation to remuneration of Assembly Members, the First Minister, Welsh Ministers, the Counsel General and Deputy Welsh Ministers, and for connected purposes. These functions would include the setting and reviewing of Assembly Members’ salaries, allowances and pensions. This would remove the responsibility for these functions from the National Assembly for Wales and which are currently conferred on the Assembly Commission.

Red meat industry

Proposed Red Meat Industry (Wales) Measure

Proposed by the Welsh Assembly Government

The proposed Measure will provide Welsh Ministers with the power to set out a framework within which the red meat industry in Wales may be developed and promoted. It includes making provision about increasing efficiency or productivity in the industry, improving marketing in the industry, improving or developing services that the industry provides or could provide to the community and improving the ways in which the industry contributes to sustainable development.

Assessing the demand for Welsh medium education

Proposed by Janet Ryder AM

Additional learning needs workers' rights

Proposed by Jeff Cuthbert AM

Carers strategies

Proposed Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure

Proposed by the Welsh Government

The purpose of this Measure is to enable the National Assembly to legislate to introduce a new requirement on the NHS and Local Authorities in Wales (“the relevant authorities”) to work in partnership to prepare, publish and implement a joint strategy in relation to carers. The strategy will provide for the provision of information and advice to carers and for the effective involvement of the relevant authorities with carers when making decisions about the provision of services to or for carers or the person cared for.

Waste

Proposed Waste (Wales) Measure

Proposed by the Welsh Government

The proposed Waste (Wales) Measure 2010 makes provision to reduce the amount of waste and litter in Wales and contributes to the development of more effective waste management arrangements in Wales.

Welsh language

Proposed Welsh Language (Wales) Measure

Proposed by the Welsh Government

The proposed Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2010 is intended to modernise the existing legal framework largely governed by the Welsh Language Act 1993 regarding the use of the Welsh language in the delivery of public services.  

This proposed Measure will include provision with regard to the official status of the Welsh language in Wales;  establish the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner;  provide for an Advisory Panel to the Commissioner;  abolish the Welsh Language Board;  make provisions about standards (to eventually replace schemes) relating to the Welsh language;  make provision about investigating alleged interferences with the freedom to use Welsh and establish a Welsh Language Tribunal.

Adult education

Proposed by Eleanor Burnham AM

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