Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Publication Etc. of Welsh Legislation Section 37Y – Printing and selling Welsh legislation and related documents
110.Section 37Y provides for the King’s Printer for Wales to print and sell Welsh legislation and documents associated with Welsh legislation. This includes legislation that has already been enacted or made by the Welsh Ministers, Senedd Cymru and formerly the National Assembly for Wales. It also provides the legislative basis for the printing and sale of future enactments (Acts of the Senedd and Welsh statutory instruments).
111.In accordance with the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (c. 28), the National Library of Wales and the other legal deposit libraries(2) currently receive copies of each printed statutory instrument made by the Welsh Ministers (in other words, all instruments that have not been classified as local instruments) and a copy of each Act of the Senedd. These are provided to them on behalf of the King’s Printer. This arrangement will continue and is unaffected by section 37Y or Part 2B more widely.