Introduction
1.These Explanatory Notes are for the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (“the Act”) which received Royal Assent on 17 August 2023.
2.They have been prepared by the Rural Affairs Department of the Welsh Government in order to assist the reader of the Act.
3.The Explanatory Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act but they are not a part of it. They are not meant to be a comprehensive description of the Act, and where an individual section of the Act does not require explanation or comment, none is given.