These regulations insert definitions into the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, National Trust, Public Accounts Committee and sentencing code. They also amend the definition of the standard scale of fines for summary offences as a consequence of the sentencing code to allow for Welsh legislation referring to the scale to continue to operate correctly. The sentencing code is the end of a lengthy project undertaken on behalf of the UK Government by the Law Commission that sought to create a single statute containing all of the law on sentencing procedure. By bringing together the existing legislation into a single sentencing code with a clear and logical structure, the law has been made more accessible for the public and for the judiciary and practitioners. The code does not introduce any new substantive laws or alter the maximum or minimum penalties for offences, and the code has been passed by the UK Parliament, received Royal Assent on 22 October, and it will come into force on 1 December. It represents an important consolidation and modernisation exercise, and serves as an example of the type of action that Governments across the UK need to take to improve the accessibility of our laws. I am pleased we've already embarked upon similar consolidation and modernisation exercises for Wales and laid the foundations for such work to be undertaken through the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019.

Members will recall that the 2019 Act fulfils two key functions. Firstly, it provides that foundation for us to improve the accessibility of Welsh law, and, secondly, provides an interpretation Act for Wales.